TOURISM is merely a gentler word for Exploration, which in turn, is a more affable word for Colonialism, that in turn, is a more acceptable word for Squatting, which all certainly would never be thought as Trespassing.   Yet, inevitably, tourists eventually end up ostracized by the locals. Like capitalism perhaps, tourism "sows the seeds of its own destruction" at maturity.  By the time First Peoples eventually feel the need to rid their lands of tourists, the tourists prove too powerful and become the Second peoples that, in turn, are too late in their attempt to ostracize their tourists that then become the Third peoples.  And so on.  Yes, Ms. Cataluna.  It's all about colonization, Darwin's origin of the species.  In rare instance when the Local actually succeeded in taking back its lands from the tourists, Hong Kong became headline news and the free world gasped, just as it had over India once upon a time.  But, I doubt that the free world will ever come to gasp over Hawaii.

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