Next Stop Squalor Summary

Reading critique: “Next Stop, Squalor” “Next Stop, Squalor” is an article in which the author wrote for the concept of poverty tourism. The “poorism” or the poverty tourism is a type of tourism that allow many tourists to view how the poorest place and life on the world is. In this article, the author shows what “poorism” which is based on his own experience, at one of the tour that he did in Dharavi slum in Mumbai, India. Also, he mentions that Mumbai is described as one of the biggest slum in Asia. It stays in two rail lines in the northern part of this city. The author looks like he liked the poverty tourism. According to the article, he wrote: “It seemed to me that the purpose on the tour was not to generate pity but understanding.” His article is generally in favor of the slum tour, but in my

We did see many schools, however; plenty of kids in uniforms. Most of the people in many parts of the world have access on education but also; it is requirement for them to let their children going to work. The best feeling of the Dharavi is to establish the community. The dentist and doctors services are published as one of the Hindis sign. Many of other slum dwellers where the factory was Muslim, and Dharavi is nothing if not diverse. From all over the India come many of their residents who have lived for ages or more than that. One of the neighborhoods slum is controlled by the successors of potters’ state, however they settled in the Dharavi. While they visited the potters in the afternoon, they were puzzled and tried to find a small number of signs of life, apart from smoking kilns and old napping on a rope cot. Because many of the potters and their families would like to visit the weeding, they took off during the afternoon. Overall the article and the author’s interviews, he lets the life of the owner who is not the same of the received idea without prejudice or idea. This tour permits