Discuss “Food and music fail to encompass cultures”

For the most part, people enjoy learning about other cultures. Unfortunately, they usually do so in a very limiting manner. Take Epcot Center, for example: People can travel ?around the world in a day? as they visit different cultural pavilions. This can be seen as in a positive light since, in the past, many people may have been fearful of rather than inquisitive toward other cultures. The problem begins when, as at Epcot, other cultures are treated as commodities, rather than as subjects worthy of complex analysis.

The rise in popularity of package tours and sightseeing checklists are one manifestation of this ethos. Culture is turned into something that can be experienced in short bursts and then checked off on a list. Just as a visitor...