One of the facets of my travel-loving family is that they went into places back when the only travelers to an area went there as latter-day colonialists. Long before nature tourism, the only way to live in certain parts of the world was to be part of the (white) colonialist power at the top of the social pyramid. These were different times. Far from getting called out for “cultural appropriation” people like my grandmother would have been considered daring and inclusive for w