Culture, Unfiltered?
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Live in fragments no longer.
Only connect…
-- E.M. Forster, Howards End
I was recently shuffling through my briefcase and unearthed a slightly tattered article from The New York Times T Magazine from May 2008. In the cover photograph, Jacqueline Kennedy and her sister Lee Radziwill sit high atop an elephant as they tour India in 1962. Bystanders look on from below as the beautiful sisters sit, untouched and aloof, physically if not psychologically.
According to journalist Anna Louie Sussman, it looks like this mode of travel - disconnected, filtered and detached - is no longer in vogue. People are increasingly wanting “unfiltered culture” when they travel, hands-on and direct. Read the full (uncrumpled) article here.
