The solution isn’t to stop traveling, but to travel wisely, not mistaking grinding poverty for cultural authenticity or confusing dictatorship with a courageous rejection of globalization.

-Michael Moynihan in Foreign Policy, in a spirited attack on the politics (such as they are) of Lonely Planet and Rough Guides.

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