It is time to face reality, blame our naïve fiduciary politicians who sent these tourists to their death, when everyone knows that tourist hotspots like Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and even UAE and Maldives are no longer safe heaven they once were envisaged. Cruise liners abandoned these ports as well as Alexandrea and Suez, after massacre of passengers outside museum in Tunis.
British people misguided by media and politicians have fallen hook, line and sinker to the charm of these sun drenched land whose culture, customs and traditions are million miles apart from ours.
In mid-eighties we used to visit Tunisia often but talking to locals we soon realised that they only tolerated Westenras for employment tourism generated in countries that has nothing much to offer.
Hidden behind plastic smiles, youthful charm and phraseological sentences, there was utter contempt for Western values. Sun-bathing topless Western women were seen as shameless, easy prey, devoid of morals and decency, to be exploited physically and financially at will.
Many middle-aged parsimonious women were excited at the innocuous attention they received from young, flunkey, flamboyant and flirtatious modulating waiters who were old enough to be their grand-sons, falling in the trap of marrying these hucksters, losing respect of their families, their homes and financial security. Then there is no fool like an old fool. There is no presumptuous half-way meeting point. It is time our government stop peddling fiddle-faddle nonsense and call spade a spade.
Bhupendra M Gandhi
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