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Most of those places were doing just fine before becoming tourist destinations. This "economy" you speak of is just the profit margins of hotel chains. It very seldom benefits the people living there.
No, no suelte' la bandera ni olvide' el lelolai, que no quiero que hagan contigo lo que le pasó a Hawái
But now that they've let it into their economy, it has grown like a parasite the type of which cannot be removed without also killing the host.
Would you look at a parasite any other way?
I think you can safely remove most parasites, if that's what you mean?
I'm saying the parasite analogy only cements why locals hate tourists.
Ah, ok. Yeah.
If it was symbiotic, it wouldn't be called a parasite, typically, so yeah.
It's not good, but also it's too late to do anything about it.