“What’s this, then? ‘Romanes Eunt Domus’? ‘People called Romanes they go the house’?”
It says “Romans go home”
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freaks me out that this joke has its own wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_ite_domum
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The problem is that often that’s not the case. There are plenty of people trying to do actual work in places like Lisbon, Barcelona, or Paris, and the economy would probably be better if people didn’t require a two hour commute because the city center got taken over the with airbnbs.
Tourists don’t buy up property to use as Airbnb’s.
Locals do.The local oligarchs can fuck off too.
That’s more like it.
What about the local government who allows all this to happen? Maybe if put under pressure, or even voted out, locals could see some real change.
But it’s easier to graffiti their own walls, and squirt tourists with water than to organize.
You don’t think they try to organise too?
Of course they do. It’s very much a hard battle though because the upper class who gets rich off tourism is staunchly against it.
The graffiti and squirts happen because of a failure of the political system, not because affected people or whatever are too lazy or whatever to impact politics.
Same thing with climate activism. It’s not happening instead of political efforts.
they don’t even need to be local oligarchs
No, investors do. Some investors only buy property in the city they live in, but a lot of investors buy property wherever they think they can make a profit.
Tourists took all the pixels
This person: “Tourists go home!”
Tourists: "That… that’s the plan? Like eventually I’ll have to. "
I wonder what this graffiti was meant to accomplish? Like, someone on holiday would see it and be like “Oh shit, guess I’m not wanted here, let me cancel all my reservations and leave early. Wouldn’t want my presence here to upset the locals any further.”
Well I wouldn’t come back
And when people ask how my trip was, I’d say “oh they really don’t want tourists there right now … Check out this picture. I wouldn’t plan on going there”
It accomplishes its goal of making tourists feel uncomfortable and less coming next tourism season. If their economy relies heavily on tourism, well, they’ll figure it out. And if they don’t, then that’s on them. Be careful what you ask for and all that.
I generally don’t change holiday plans because 1 person in a city of millions don’t like tourists. If the people of the city don’t actually want tourists, they’ll make more official announcements about it. Until then, I’ll chalk random grafity on the streets up as some teenager being stupid and annoyed.
Not to mention how many small businesses depend heavily on tourists.
Some poor schlep probably worked in a restaurant where they get paid $2.13 an hour and just pulled a double because the place was hopping and the owner refused to pay them for the tips they weren’t getting.
Not me blaming the tourists, the businesses should pay a living wage, but it’s not an unreasonable scenerio
“Well I only got the 30 day visa…”
“What’s this, then? ‘Romanes Eunt Domus’? ‘People called Romanes they go the house’?”
“It says ‘Romans, go home’!”
“No it doesn’t.”
Domus? Nominative? This is motion toward isn’t it boy?
ROMANI ITE DOMVM
I remember this better than anything I ever learned in Latin class.
People in this comment sections really don’t understand the extractivism and displacement inherent to mass tourism.
As someone who had to move away from the place my entire family all my friends and community are because tourism skyrocketed the price and made it unaffordable, and am now isolated, I can empathise with this.
Other people are tourists; we, of course, are cultured travelers.
I recommend Enzensberger’s seminal (PDF) piece on tourism to everyone. Here’s where he slams two early critics of tourism whom he considers to be hypocrites:Implicitly, they both demand that travel be exclusive, reserved for them and their like. They never say exactly what it is that distinguishes them from “sight-seeing-squirrels” or from the “cheap trippers.” The luxury they appropriate without a second thought is considered sinful when consumed by the mob. […] While condemning those who succumb to tourism’s attraction, Shand praises the “splendid views” offered by the great peaks, the “playground of Europe” - Switzerland at that time - and the “sanctuaries” whose desecration is always somebody else’s doing.
US American here, just got back from a trip to Europe and saw graffiti almost like this. It said “GO HOME MAGA” so, not being MAGA, I didn’t feel too bad about my tourism. I saw it in a couple places; on one of them, someone had added a T at the end; on another, someone added the anarchy A.
We need graffiti insulting MAGA in US too.
One of the few graffiti I’d support.
I see the same in my town in Canada. Largely I choose to think that most Americans vacationing in Canada are probably more sympathetic to why we dislike threats of annexation and economic warfare. And if not, at least they gave us their money and it’s my job not to send it back 🤷♀️
Sadly, the majority of the assholes make it abroad. Because the US right vs left is largely class warfare, the right ends up with more disposable capital to travel.
When I travel, I’m largely disappointed by the US tourists around me.
Absolutely right! One of our tour guides for something had to keep us entertained on a long bus ride and kept telling us all about the amazing progressive things that the country was doing and… yeah, we’re so backwards here. I don’t think she said a single thing that we disagreed with, but I’m sure the MAGATs would have thought differently had there been any there to listen to her. But maybe they wouldn’t visit because of all of the (gasp) socialism!
Some of my favorite travel photos are of other tourists. I love the one of all of the people holding their phones up to take the same bad photo of the Mona Lisa or the lawn filled with people all taking the same forced perspective shot of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
One of the greatest videos I’ve ever seen was someone running along giving a high five to all the dorks taking the same photo of the leaning tower.
Then there was the timed leaping shots fad everyone was doing to make it look like they were floating in the air.
People called Tourist, they go the house?
Is this because of the whirled cup?
It doesn’t look like the US. Hard to say for sure though
One search shows it as a Reddit post, Barcelona 2018.
I wonder if it was made by a tourist.
Strong Martin Paar vibes 😆
Edit: Sorry for the duplicate comment, my connection was unstable, I think that’s why
If it were the US it’s just a fair warning.
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If your city relies on tourism, imagine what will happen if something like covid happens. Wm
I don’t think Barcelona went under on account of the lack of tourism, to be fair.
My sister worked in hospitality there back then. Massive layoffs, tens of thousands of people went into unemployment. Sure, the city didn’t went under. But it strained the social security network to its limits. I would guess that places with less wealth accumulation and worse social welfare laws didn’t fare as well.
