Shopping malls and supermarkets: Visiting the Unvisited
Every time I visit a new place, I tend to go a lot. A real lot. I walk streets and turn me around completely, because you never know what you can be found just around the next corner. A recent walking adventure brought me little girl singing Abba on the streets of Stockholm. Rambling is a wonderful way, locals and their daily lives to see, away from all the tourist destinations.
Two often overlooked places that tell us about the life of the locals, are supermarkets and shopping malls. These are where the locals go for shopping to spend an afternoon, relax and do some shopping. In short, it is like. And unfortunately, most travelers rarely go there. But I think they are two of the best places to get a real look at the local life.
It can be difficult to think a mall as a cultural place, but let us think for a moment outside the box. For starters, there are no tourists. In shopping centers I go to, I have never seen, especially when I visit a shopping center outside of downtown. The only reason I is there at the end, as a rule, because I accompany my friends on their errands locally.
roaming centers You can tell a lot about the place you visit. What kind of store they like? What fashion? What kind of fast food they prefer? Have big box stores or small boutiques like? Malls They also give an idea of the cost of living because you like to see much goods cost. Once in Italy, I saw a sign with the words, which tells me two things about Italy "XXL Available- American size." There is a clear understanding was that the Americans were very thick, and the fat was in Italy not an Italian thing considered. Go shopping in Stockholm, and you will see a lot of trendy, high-end fashion. In Paris, you do not see large gaps and Abecrombies- look, top of the line fashion as Hermes, Prada, Gucci and small boutiques.
malls enter a window in the material life of the people and the material material that they appreciate. What is the value people put on "substance" is to be seen as cultural as the type of architecture in their buildings, to enjoy them.
Supermarkets have another amazing place to local culture. As people eat what they eat, and what they do not eat, says a lot about how they see food, life and health. In America, our focus on large shows easily that we. Not gourmets as culture Food is not as important as speed. We eat a lot of fast food, ready meals, and go eat. In France, the quality of food is important. French citizens in Brussels live in France go back good French to get food. Any other road has small grocery stores - small shops for fish, pastries, fruit and bread. The food is not consumed convenience for flavor.
Go to the supermarket answers many questions. What kind of food like humans? What are the local delicacies? You see a lot of fish in Scandinavia, many different types of meat in Austria, packed shelves of wine in France, and a large sausage and vegetable section in Italy. In Bangkok, you see a lot of ready meals. All over the world, focusing on food is different.
The food is such an integral part of the culture that should not be a visit to a country without a visit to a supermarket. I'm always blown away when I go to them, because I learn more about how people live their lives and what they value, as I learn from a trip to a memorial.
travelers always take the obvious targets, but malls and supermarkets offer something different, unique, and locally. If the trip is about the places to know that you go to and peered into the lives of its citizens, then people see going about their daily life in shopping malls and supermarkets is a great way to do just that.
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