ernandez R -> RE: Festival Jerez (Mar. 16 2021 6:55:27)
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Would it help to know that this being over run by tourist is not your problem alone, nor is having your culture asemulated for cash. We live in a small Alaskan village, we have a two hundred yard Main Street, 900 year round residents along a twenty mile road. The cruse ships bring over a thousand tourist a day. It's funny, they never leave Main Street, we live about 200 yards away and its always quite and calm here. It's a love hate relationship. We will most likely be bankrupt by the fall, there are some federal monies coming our way but no real light for us in the future. My partner started here over twenty years ago, sleepy little drinking town with a mountain climbing problem. Fishing and hiking, views and solitude galore, glaciers rivers and lakes, the kind of space our European visitors say don't exist untouched anywhere else. Neither of us want the ships to come back but not sure how to exist without all their cash? The Boss says I better sell a lot of guitars. Sadly it looks like I will be traveling out west to ply my aviation maintenance skills in order to make enough money for us to survive through the next winter. I can't say we've lost a culture that wasn't already gone by the 1930s, the last working dog team I knew of was finished before I arrived and to be honest the last working snow machine too, they are ridden for fun now and a few do keep dogs. The Alaskan native population was decimated by disease: siphliss, whisky, and religion. The so called Spanish flue killed off most that had survived the calamity of progress and the core of any culture they had retained. Ironically those areas first settled by the Russian orthadox had kept more of their native heritage while those settled by their American counterparts, the Protestants, lost everything. And just to be fair and balanced the Catholics sent their pedifile rapist priests to the outlaying villages of western Alaska. This problem is world wide and it could be said a product of a freedom few in the world have had until now? It could be a function of gross overpopulation? More likly it's a combanation of varied ideas and dreams and marketing and exploited wealth and isms I can't recall at the moment. My gut feeling is there is a hunger, that many are searching for something inside their selves and not finding it are striking outside their world. Funny cause when I run into the type I tell them to get a little mirror and give it a glance, for within lies all they search for. I call it my ruby red slippers rule of life. If you recall Glenda the Good witch askes Dorothy what she had learned of Oz, don't recall exactly but something about don't go looking any farther then your own back yard: there's no pace like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home...
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