The tourists apparently started haggling after being charged 1.50 dollars for a cup of tea :michael-laugh:
(NSFW in case some folks find mild violence upsetting)
Here's the Nepalese woman's side of the story
It was during monsoon season . A white women came to my tea shop with her son. I offered them tea in my cup. She said, “I prefer to drink in my own cup.” Which was three fold bigger than our normal size. Everything was good before she asked the price of tea. She said, 150 rupees was way too much for a cup of tea and insisted to decrease price but I tried to explain my hardship. She wasn’t listening to me at all. She threw money in-front of me using harsh words. Also, she took pictures of my tea shop and threatened to post it on medias and report local police.
I told not to do so saying this will not help my business in anyways and asked her to delete that photo. But, in return, she took her knife and pointed towards me. She was a devil, she was constantly irritating and triggering my anger and I couldn’t stop myself. [Pasang Gurung, Manang]
British women used her biased GoPro footage to ruin the hospitality image of Nepalese people, now it’s our turn to let the world know what really happened before that video was taken.
150 Nepalese Rupees is about $1.25 USD. For a huge cup of tea: served inside someone's home and halfway up a mountain where supplies need to be moved via human power or pack animals through harsh roads to even get there. And the british tourist still had the gall to complain and threaten to ruin the owners livelihood over a drink that costs less than a third of what it would go for at a London Starbucks. Then she takes out a fucking knife.
There's an unbelievable culture of chauvinism and entitlement among Anglos in Asia where they'll demand everybody bend over backwards to accommodate them and expect to receive the the exact same favours as locals, despite the fact that they refuse to learn the local language and have many times more money sitting around in their bank account than the average family there will earn in a year.
Somehow I have the suspicion that this Br*tish woman doesn't react by pulling a knife, posting manipulated videos online and threatening to report people to the police if they charge a price she finds too high back home in white Terf Island.
Imagine traveling from your imperialist safe haven and trying to bargain some local down from a dollar and fifty cents after they put your ugly ass up in their home.
my favorite thing is that Canadian guy who went to an ayahuasca retreat and killed the elder who ran the ceremony (an 89 year old woman, lol) and then his family/govt got mad when the locals rightfully lynched and killed him in retaliation
Anglos legit think they're gods
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/23/canadian-lynched-in-peru-after-being-accused-of-killing-shaman
It fucking floors me every time I read stuff on travel that's usually written by westerners (not necessarily anglos, though I am unfortunately one) on some poorer places, and people write about how to avoid scams and avoid overpaying, but then you run the conversion to the local currency and it's like a fucking dollar at the most. Absolutely no skin off the traveler's back, but can mean a good day's wages for whoever's involved. Fucking wild.
Even for condescending tourists they're fucked up. Like, my dad once wrote a travel guide for Jamaica; he pretty consistently states that you should heavily tip all the people serving you, in US dollars if you can, because they'll remember you for it. Condescending, sure, but pragmatic.
This a particular, awful kind of penny pinching posh person as well. No one would bat an eye at paying less than a quid for a cup of tea in Britain where no one has had to lug it up a mountain or give you free accommodation with it.
I guarantee this women regularly pays four or five times that for a weak teabag and a slice of lemon at home and probably double that again for a coffee made with laboratory equipment.
Yeah, McDonald's tea (not in a city or service station) is still 99p and basically the cheapest you'll find anywhere. And that's still more than 150 rupees!
Holy fuck put this in my fucking veins :faded:
These people should be milking the everloving fuck out of western tourists, they're the entire reason that their local economies have become completely reliant on tourism. Anyone who visits global south tourism areas and isn't overwhelmingly happy to pay above the literal cents these people are almost always asking for, or even the overcharged prices, needs the wall
:stalin-gun-1::stalin-gun-2:
Literally how fucking undignifying must it be to watch most of your community's local, culturally-important and historic professions disappear and be financially strong-armed into providing Service With A Smile to rich white people who treat you like a curiosity as though they're at a fucking zoo or adventure park
Edit: The documentary Sherpa is about a bunch of Sherpas working on Everest coming together, after a few of them die from being forced through unsafe working conditions, to say a resounding Fuck You to the rich white owners of the tourism companies and to cancel the rest of the 2015 climbing season. It's heartbreaking but I couldn't recommend it highly enough. The praxis payoff and sheer magnitude of rich tourist cope at the end is just :chefs-kiss:
yes if you travel abroad as an anglo you need to pay the colonialism tax and be fucking happy about it. You're lucky these people aren't gutting you.
Screaming to not hurt her son, being told that the son is obviously not involved and is not in danger then screaming that her son can see so she shouldn't hurt her lmao.
Just give the lady the money she asked for (and maybe don't throw it on the ground first this time)
i'm crying holy shit :data-laughing:
"You people are donkey!"
:anglo-burn: -sphere destroyed.
Nepal was never actually colonised (although a token amount of land was ceded to us) they actually gave us such a thrashing we were thoroughly impressed, so as soon as we signed a treaty (mainly to save face) part of our agreement was to actually have Nepali soldiers fight for us as they were so deadly and efficient, that's why to this day you have Gurkhas in the British army and they're still known as one of the toughest elite units in the world.
Famously during the Falklands war an Argentinian garrison surrendered after hearing that Gurkhas were on their way lol or an after action report from Burma during world war two where they slaughtered an entire Japanese patrol with nothing but kukhris without a single casualty.
EDIT: Gurkha who fought off 30 Taliban and after running out of ammunition began battering them with the machine gun tripod
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1369743/Gurkha-fought-Taliban-awarded-Gallantry-Cross.html
"We never colonized them, we just tried to kill them for their land, then got some of their land and turned them into a fighting force for out military, totally not colonization"
May we all be blessed with the opportunity to beat up running Br*tons one day
I think there is more to the story than a mere disagreement over price
been to Nepal, on treks you usually pass by tea shops and you can ask to stay. They'll almost always let you stay for free, with the condition that you buy a dinner or breakfast or at least some drinks. They're extremely welcoming and kind people, and this woman or her family has to carry every piece of food up the mountain on their back (unless they live in a rare village with sturdy roads). It can take hours of hiking straight up and down to bring supplies up to their tea shop, so then this lady basically steals hours of this woman's back-breaking labor and a spot in her tea house that could've been filled with a paying customer. it's especially stressful for this woman bc the tourist seasons in nepal are short (too cold, too rainy, too hot for hikes) so the nepalese up in the mountains need to make that cash to provide for their families for the entire year. I went alone so I rented my own guide and he was so sweet and went so far out of his way to make me happy, that I actually paid him double his rate (which i was already paying a "high tourist fee") and after 4 days + my double bonus i only spent $35-40. To haggle over a $1 tea after you've taken one of the most expensive flights across the world with all your specialty designer gear is so rude. it's especially rude when you factor in the fire wood, clean sheets, bed space, water for bathing and bathroom, and electricity that this tourist undoubtedly used for free when she could've just been left out to freeze on the mountain lol
https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/puvmkc/nepalese_woman_chases_and_hits_british_tourists/he800a3/
Dude, get some perspective. It is not fucked to expect a rich person from the imperial core visiting your poor imperialized nation to pay a tiny amount of money (to the rich person) for a product.
Imagine spending thousands of dollars on hobby gear and a flight, rocking up to a struggling person's home, who gives you free shelter and amenities, and then throwing a tantrum and making threats when you're asked to pay an extremely reasonable price for the cup of tea you're drinking. How is the struggling person at all in the wrong?
Dude have you ever been somewhere else ?
the golden Rule : "WHEN IN ROME ......"
Get it know ?
I don't think anyone thought the free room was charity though, why would anyone just do that for some tourist backpacker, or like anyone who wasn't traveling out of necessity
Who cares she's a fucking british tourist who's too spoilt to pay 1.50 for some tea
Nepalese lady did nothing wrong
