The tourists apparently started haggling after being charged 1.50 dollars for a cup of tea :michael-laugh:
(NSFW in case some folks find mild violence upsetting)
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Smh in Communist Nepal they beat up innocent white tourists.
Here’s the Nepalese woman’s side of the story
It was during monsoon season . A white women came to my tea shop with her son. I offered them tea in my cup. She said, “I prefer to drink in my own cup.” Which was three fold bigger than our normal size. Everything was good before she asked the price of tea. She said, 150 rupees was way too much for a cup of tea and insisted to decrease price but I tried to explain my hardship. She wasn’t listening to me at all. She threw money in-front of me using harsh words. Also, she took pictures of my tea shop and threatened to post it on medias and report local police.
I told not to do so saying this will not help my business in anyways and asked her to delete that photo. But, in return, she took her knife and pointed towards me. She was a devil, she was constantly irritating and triggering my anger and I couldn’t stop myself. [Pasang Gurung, Manang]
British women used her biased GoPro footage to ruin the hospitality image of Nepalese people, now it’s our turn to let the world know what really happened before that video was taken.
150 Nepalese Rupees is about $1.25 USD. For a huge cup of tea: served inside someone’s home and halfway up a mountain where supplies need to be moved via human power or pack animals through harsh roads to even get there. And the british tourist still had the gall to complain and threaten to ruin the owners livelihood over a drink that costs less than a third of what it would go for at a London Starbucks. Then she takes out a fucking knife.
There’s an unbelievable culture of chauvinism and entitlement among Anglos in Asia where they’ll demand everybody bend over backwards to accommodate them and expect to receive the the exact same favours as locals, despite the fact that they refuse to learn the local language and have many times more money sitting around in their bank account than the average family there will earn in a year.
I think there is more to the story than a mere disagreement over price
been to Nepal, on treks you usually pass by tea shops and you can ask to stay. They’ll almost always let you stay for free, with the condition that you buy a dinner or breakfast or at least some drinks. They’re extremely welcoming and kind people, and this woman or her family has to carry every piece of food up the mountain on their back (unless they live in a rare village with sturdy roads). It can take hours of hiking straight up and down to bring supplies up to their tea shop, so then this lady basically steals hours of this woman’s back-breaking labor and a spot in her tea house that could’ve been filled with a paying customer. it’s especially stressful for this woman bc the tourist seasons in nepal are short (too cold, too rainy, too hot for hikes) so the nepalese up in the mountains need to make that cash to provide for their families for the entire year. I went alone so I rented my own guide and he was so sweet and went so far out of his way to make me happy, that I actually paid him double his rate (which i was already paying a “high tourist fee”) and after 4 days + my double bonus i only spent $35-40. To haggle over a $1 tea after you’ve taken one of the most expensive flights across the world with all your specialty designer gear is so rude. it’s especially rude when you factor in the fire wood, clean sheets, bed space, water for bathing and bathroom, and electricity that this tourist undoubtedly used for free when she could’ve just been left out to freeze on the mountain lol
Dude, get some perspective. It is not fucked to expect a rich person from the imperial core visiting your poor imperialized nation to pay a tiny amount of money (to the rich person) for a product.
Imagine spending thousands of dollars on hobby gear and a flight, rocking up to a struggling person’s home, who gives you free shelter and amenities, and then throwing a tantrum and making threats when you’re asked to pay an extremely reasonable price for the cup of tea you’re drinking. How is the struggling person at all in the wrong?
