[coldtea]

>The more insightful take is not to bemoan that the culture isn't some platonic ideal of itself locked in amber, but experience it for what it is- living, breathing, changing around you. Because of you.

Only lots of cultures just die under tourism, and just remain as disneyland-like versions of themselves.

You give the example of Paris, but Paris is a huge cosmopolitan city, and has been so for centuries. It's not the kind of place that can't withstand a tourist influx.