Comments on: About India http://www.journeywithjanelle.com/2009/11/05/about-india/ Float, Baby. Float. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:27:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Janelle Eagle http://www.journeywithjanelle.com/2009/11/05/about-india/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Janelle Eagle Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:49:19 +0000 http://www.journeywithjanelle.com/?p=131#comment-40 Dear Anonymous,<br />I anticipate and welcome a response like yours. Perhaps you can read the rest of my writing about India or Nepal to learn more about my experiences while traveling in the region. <br /><br />I am a voyeur by nature- a writer, photographer, and filmmaker... so there is nothing I can do to avoid that perspective when I travel. <br /><br />As someone who always seeks further knowledge, I also gladly accept your recommendation for reading. Simultaneously, I encourage you to do the same by learning more about who I am before you make assumptions about my worldly perspective.<br /><br />Thanks for stopping by and hope you'll visit again.<br /><br />Best,<br />Janelle Dear Anonymous,
I anticipate and welcome a response like yours. Perhaps you can read the rest of my writing about India or Nepal to learn more about my experiences while traveling in the region.

I am a voyeur by nature- a writer, photographer, and filmmaker… so there is nothing I can do to avoid that perspective when I travel.

As someone who always seeks further knowledge, I also gladly accept your recommendation for reading. Simultaneously, I encourage you to do the same by learning more about who I am before you make assumptions about my worldly perspective.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you'll visit again.

Best,
Janelle

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.journeywithjanelle.com/2009/11/05/about-india/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Anonymous Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:22:39 +0000 http://www.journeywithjanelle.com/?p=131#comment-39 Your post reeks of entitlement and white privilege. It might have done you some good to approach your travels with a little less ego and some awareness of who you are in relation to where you are. The way you describe it, you might as well have gone to check out some circus freaks; maybe a visit to gawk at Sara Baartman would have done the same thing for you: reestablish the boundaries that maintain your superiority over the poor dirty natives. And the expectations you came with are just as flawed as your reaction-- whether you glorify India or criticize it you are doing it with an attitude of a voyeur. As hard as it may be for you to understand, the world is not on display for your self-congratulatory, neo-colonial explorations. <br /><br />Recommended reading: Edward Said, "Orientalism" Your post reeks of entitlement and white privilege. It might have done you some good to approach your travels with a little less ego and some awareness of who you are in relation to where you are. The way you describe it, you might as well have gone to check out some circus freaks; maybe a visit to gawk at Sara Baartman would have done the same thing for you: reestablish the boundaries that maintain your superiority over the poor dirty natives. And the expectations you came with are just as flawed as your reaction– whether you glorify India or criticize it you are doing it with an attitude of a voyeur. As hard as it may be for you to understand, the world is not on display for your self-congratulatory, neo-colonial explorations.

Recommended reading: Edward Said, "Orientalism"

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