14 Jul 2025
The guide made several racist remarks regarding Asian people including being able to tell that people are Korean rather than Chinese because Korean people are prettier because they have fairer skin, being especially surprised that someone of Asian descent in our group could speak some Spanish, pointing out Chinese tourists specifically every time we walked by them, etc. I felt that she spent more time on offhand remarks such as these and talking about the hotel, etc. than actually giving us pertinent historical information, for example not being able to answer what some of the repeated Arabic writing means and generalizing all of the translation to “Allah is the best,” which is not actually correct.
It was clear that she was very passionate about her work but had not received proper training for working with international and diverse groups especially.