ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses theoretical on power dynamics in global nomads' personal encounters. They are examined through two discourses, the ethical and the ethnocentric that make visible the huge stone that global nomads are rolling up the hill: they struggle with the dilemma between their will to learn and understand local cultures and people, and their own cultural baggage which hinders the task. Global nomads' reaction to racism when it was brought up in the interviews was either to dismiss it because they felt uneasy saying anything negative about local cultures, or to try and frame the discrimination in a positive light. Discrimination based on nationality was most prevalent for Americans. The chapter examines the culture confusion that occurs when encountering cultural differences and how global nomads cope with the resulting power asymmetries. It discusses the status and inequality that location-independence brings about at a global level.
