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🇺🇸: If you've been watching American news lately, you'd know that a lot is happening right now. One of which is the taking down of confederate statues which some people are upset about. This is because in their own words "It erases their culture, history, and pride". ⁠
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Two years ago, I worked with a New Orleans tourism organization. I was given a list of places to visit. I did a swamp tour, watched a jazz show, ate beignets, got filled up with scrumptious New Orleans cuisine (btw something you must try before you leave this earth), overall I was enjoying the whole southern hospitality. Then it came to visiting a plantation. Plantation visits are a common tourist activity in the southern part of the U.S. What I didn't know then was how horrified I'd feel after coming out of the tour. I couldn't believe that a well-known tourism agency would include this particular plantation on the itinerary. ⁠
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My thought about a plantation tour is that its purpose is to highlight the events of the past and the experience of African slaves during that time period. At this particular plantation, the tour guide, who was hired all the way from France by the way (to make the tour "more authentic"), emphasized how the lives of the plantation owners were. how wealthy they lived, their ingenuity from how they used the technology back then to make their lives easier, and how the men fetishized Native American women. At this plantation, there were various offensive paintings of Native Americans and African slaves. The tour guide glazed over those paintings and rarely mentioned it. Guys!, this was 2018. She treated this plantation like it was the Versailles Palace, ignoring a salient part of events that took place during that era, and in that plantation. I read the plantation's pamphlet. Their about page mentioned how their objective was to preserve the southern culture and its history. I flipped through the pamphlet; they also offered the plantation for wedding celebrations and dinner parties. ⁠
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Culture and traditions are beautiful but when they cause damage to people do we still celebrate it? How should a nation address the ugly parts of its history?⁠

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