Concealing the misery.

[Soulforged]

This is happening right now, in my country, in the third world, and why not, in yours too probably. Luckily I found a bunch of articles in english from the event. The truth is that I don't need that article to discuss this, but it makes my point in reality.
A leftist with an agenda for the poor and jobless, though I admit that a bunch of them only like to look for trouble, opens a soup kitchen, with the permission of the owner, in one of the richest hoods of Argentina. This place is, of course, where rich people and turist (i.e. again, rich people) pass their time, they eat there, they walk there, they sleep there, they go out at night there, because in Buenos Aires there's little to see out of that place and other reach hoods. Then the polemic begins. Some people state that this is good because it helps the poor, though they've to travel for hours to rich that place for any "villa" they live in. Some others are, like always, apathic. And then there's the ones that opine that this is detrimental to our society, that it reduces turism, that it will be a problem to the economy, that this is their hood and they don't want people like "them" walking around, and so on. In middle of this debate, that luckily ended up well with the "soup kitchen" opening this week, there was an interesting opinion from one of the locals and other from a turist. There first one told something like this: "It's ok that he (refering to Castells, the leftist leader) wants to open a place so the poor can eat and all that, but when you've misery you don't put it where everybody can see it, you try to hide it". The turist (don't know from where, but it was european) says: "It's ok (...) but I didn't came here to see them, they're ruining a good place...". This would be good enough to start a discussion, me thinks, but the thing gets even better. Not so long ago, perhaps not even a year, a group of tours were organized in the zones were usually the turist come to visit, mostly centric and harbor areas. The tour was about taking the tourist to visit the "villas", they took a bus and then they passed through the "villas" while seeing how this rare species, the poor, lived they little lives. I know that many of you have no idea of what happens in other places (as me), and it's not necessary, since what I ask is about morality, is about if this two things are right for you and why, or wrong. Is this about hiding the poors or concealing them? Is this about economy? Is this about how we see ourselves as society and our values? Or is it just a trivial matter? Finally I may add that tourism is one of the bigger industruies we've here.