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An American in Scotland: An Examination of What it Means to Be a Tourist, a Traveler, and a Student in a Foreign Country
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This paper is an examination of my own personal experience living and studying abroad in Scotland and how this experience relates to the concept of tourist versus traveler. The concept of tourist versus traveler is found in many different work of travel writing. Paul Fussell described the tourist versus traveler idea best. Travelers, according to Fussell, "learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government, they learn, if they are lucky, humility." The aim of this project is to look at the differences between a tourist and a traveler is reference to my own personal experiences studying abroad. After spending a semester living and studying in Scotland I noticed that my behavior had changed, becoming more likely to try new things and immerse myself in Scottish society, instead of seeing the important historical places. I spent five months living in Scotland and during this time I noticed that the more time I spent abroad the less I wanted to do the tourist traps and the more I wanted experience Scotland through the parts of the country most generally would not see. My paper moves from my experience as a tourist to later in the semester when I had been living there for a while. This work can also be used to examine what living and studying abroad is like for students. Different countries have different ways of handling education and this work can help highlight these differences.
Date Created
2016-05
Contributors
- Dominy, Rachel Marie (Author)
- Scott Lynch, Jacquelyn (Thesis director)
- McAdams, Charity (Committee member)
- Department of Management (Contributor)
- Department of English (Contributor)
- W. P. Carey School of Business (Contributor)
- Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics (Contributor)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
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44 pages
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Academic Year 2015-2016
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https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.36221
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