Abstract

The Flavor of Turnips
December 30, 1961 issue

add to cart   close window

Tourism disposes one toward giddy light-heartedness. Viewing a foreign land on the run, from the window of a bus, one can get a host of motley, hazy and contradictory impressions. One might imagine that he had grasped the main character, even in its most general aspect, that he had formed an unbiased and true idea of the foreign country and people he had seen, hut all that is self-delusion. There is nothing more conventional, subjective and unauthentic than a tourists impressions. No wonder most people regard tourists as superficial observers, whose travel stories are to be taken with a pinch of salt.

See Also:

TOURISM; TRAVELERS; MOTLEY; TOURISTS; FOOLS & jesters; DELUSIONS
ARCHIVE HOME
Pricing
Articles are sold in 'packs,' which are priced as follows:

1 for 2.95
4 for 9.95
10 for 19.95
50 for 34.95
300 for 149.95
Refund Policy
Sales of archive individual articles, full issues or article packs are final and no refunds will be issued.
Access for libraries
help
Search
Browse
Sample Article

In Your Cart

Your cart is empty.

My Articles

You must be logged in to view your articles.

User name

Password

I don't have a login.

I forgot my user name/password.
Advertisement
Advertisement

Blogs

» Editor's Cut

Filibuster Follies | "The filibuster has become a cancer growing inside the world's greatest deliberative body."
Katrina vanden Heuvel
13 Comments
Posted at 10:13 ET

» The Beat

Obama's "Finish the Job" Talk Sets Stage for Afghan Troop Surge | But Appropriations Committee chair Obey warns the move would "wipe out every initiative we have to rebuild our own economy."
John Nichols
73 Comments

» The Notion

Bad Black Mothers | For African American women, reproduction has never been an entirely private matter.
Melissa Harris-Lacewell
35 Comments

» Act Now!

Coal Country | Stunning film reveals new dimensions to the cost of America's over-reliance on coal.
Peter Rothberg
88 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

A Kingdom of Bicycles No Longer | China's ambassador for climate change speaks on the eve of the Copenhagen summit meeting.
Robert Dreyfuss
42 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
Eric Alterman