Yesterday's New York Times' story about tourists behaving badly around the world blamed the trend on social media, which has given young travelers (it's rarely seniors who trash a resort) a place to showcase their destructive and often dangerous comportment.
Bad behavior abroad is nothing new. For centuries, people who could afford to left their countries to engage in acts they would never have considered at home. But the whole point of that was discretion and anonymity, both of which a selfie destroys. The notable development is not the rise in delinquency (in the age of mass tourism) but the disappearance of shame.
