{"id":639,"date":"2009-03-24T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2487865902652436189.post-230596297316888670"},"modified":"2009-04-29T18:07:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T02:07:41","slug":"theories-of-mixture-hybridity-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/last201\/2009\/03\/24\/theories-of-mixture-hybridity-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Theories of Mixture:  Hybridity III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was somewhat confusing. \u00a0However, there is one point that Canclini makes that I agree in part with, but not totally.<\/p>\n<div>Canclini says that the state uses folk culture to attract tourists. \u00a0On many levels, I agree with this. \u00a0I think that in countries like in Mexico and Brazil, this is more obvious than in others. \u00a0But in countries like Costa Rica, where a nation&#8217;s identity is still in question (I mean we have beautiful naturre, beaches, great people) what does the government take in order to attract tourists? \u00a0This is where I think Canclini generalized his thoughts of states using folk culture because of personal experience. \u00a0In Costa Rica, tourists come for nature and having a great time mostly outdoors, but I know that seeing McDonalds, Burger King, international banks and this kind of thing is a\u00a0definite\u00a0bonus for travelers. \u00a0Sometimes I think we get the amount of tourists that we get because it reminds them so much of home (excepts for a few details), and they feel safe there. \u00a0So, in this case, I think the state uses perhaps US mass culture to attract tourists and make Costa Rica a more attractive destination.<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/res1.blogblog.com\/tracker\/2487865902652436189-230596297316888670?l=galalluvia.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was somewhat confusing. \u00a0However, there is one point that Canclini makes that I agree in part with, but not totally.Canclini says that the state uses folk culture to attract tourists. \u00a0On many levels, I agree with this. \u00a0I think that in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3521,333],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garcia-canclini","category-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/last201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/last201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/last201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/last201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/last201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/last201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/last201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/last201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/last201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/last201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}