{"id":36704,"date":"2011-06-11T10:24:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T15:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=36704"},"modified":"2011-11-02T19:22:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T00:22:56","slug":"local-residents-as-vacation-souvenirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/06\/11\/local-residents-as-vacation-souvenirs\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Residents as Vacation Souvenirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/06\/rodrigo.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36705 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/06\/rodrigo-500x255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/06\/rodrigo-500x255.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/06\/rodrigo.jpg 531w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have posted in the past about <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/01\/20\/the-privileged-white-vacationer-in-a-cruise-ship-ad\/\">non-Whites being used as props in tourism and travel ads<\/a>, there <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/01\/17\/tourism-and-the-objectification-of-the-native\/\">for the enjoyment and convenience of tourists<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/10\/04\/friendly-villagers-get-news-from-foreign-lands-tourism-in-brazil\/\">like other tourist attractions<\/a>. Rhiannon J. sent in another excellent example of the residents of vacation areas being treated like just another amenity. In this ad for Travelocity, a White family enthuses about the many pleasures of their vacation spot &#8212; including the sun, the sand&#8230;and &#8220;the Rodrigo&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><object width=\"500\" height=\"314\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/R_DeHNSLlaU?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>As Rhiannon pointed out, the family discusses Rodrigo, who apparently loves carrying fruits for <del>White<\/del> tourists, the way you might discuss a stray dog.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Reader Chorda correctly points out that, while my use of race as the dividing point made sense when viewing these ads as a group, in this particular case &#8220;ethnicity&#8221; would probably be a more appropriate term to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have posted in the past about non-Whites being used as props in tourism and travel ads, there for the enjoyment and convenience of tourists, like other tourist attractions. Rhiannon J. sent in another excellent example of the residents of vacation areas being treated like just another amenity. In this ad for Travelocity, a White [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[285,307],"class_list":["post-36704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-raceethnicity","tag-traveltourism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36704"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41310,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36704\/revisions\/41310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}