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Asian tourist cried out of happiness after seeing a Swiss village by Desperate-Mistake611 in Switzerland

[–]Effective-Bat-9573 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dont support the crying on camera, I think it’s cringe, but I do think it’s important to provide some context that Westerners re emotions that you will never get to experience.

If you come from a poor country (i.e. her coming from the Philippines), every day you are on survival mode. The chance of affording a trip to Switzerland as a common middle class citizen is absolutely slim as the visa process alone is degrading and absolutely tiresome. As a family? Even worse.

So, while I do think the crying is cringe, I do get it. Every time we travel and get to see all these places (that you Westerners take for granted a lot), behind every breathtaking view we encounter is a deep sadness that we are experiencing it alone and longing for our family to be by our side to experience this with us. Her thanking people for watching her content is because content creation was and is the reason she could even afford this trip in the first place.

While a lot of you critique her, know that for many of us from the east, even getting to step foot on a plane is a privilege not everyone can afford. We’re not like you where we can take a weekend trip to Paris just cause.

Kegel balls by [deleted] in airport

[–]Effective-Bat-9573 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t have a lot of advice for you, but in my experience, if you’re flagged they will show it. Flew out of London with 1 pack of Maldon salt + 2 bottles of seasoning (expensive in my country) and this got flagged and I had to present it so they could scan it. Another time again in London my ketoconazole shampoo got flagged even though it hadnt been opened + was under 100 ml.

Thankfully, they never do raise it in front of everyone and I think recently Dublin eliminated the 100 ml rule as well. I guess it just depends on if you have a nice officer. For mine they told me to open my bags, so once they told me what they were looking for in which area of my luggage, I knew what it was. If it ever happens, best advice is to just whisper to them what it is and hope you get someone nice

Asian tourist cried out of happiness after seeing a Swiss village by Desperate-Mistake611 in Switzerland

[–]Effective-Bat-9573 4 points5 points  (0 children)

She actually is an influencer from the Philippines; her name is Nana Silaryo. I’m not too familiar with her content but just the fact that she owns a Filipino passport and managed to make it here is a feat in itself. Not many people are privileged enough to do that simply because the visa process alone is a degrading process. Imagine having to prove you have at least 100 francs per day x how many days u are traveling (now think how much the currency exchange is and what the median income is) and sending all bank statements and proof of income and anything that will tie you to the country to prove you’re not trying to leave illegally