ABSTRACT
Chapter 7 compares, through SPSS cross-tabulations, visitor demographic characteristics to the visitor responses to each interview question. The chapter identifies the underpinning critical performances informed by inequity/exclusion and the less reflexive performance of privilege and nation-making. What may be defined as a ‘clinical’ variation in criticality and reflexivity emerges, as far as those from dominant ethnic backgrounds tend to be over-represented at the banal and uncritical end of the spectrum. Overseas tourists overall and those of dominant ethnic backgrounds and low educational attainment at dissonant sites – that is, those less invested in nationalising narratives – tend to occupy the middle ground, while those from non-dominant ethnic backgrounds tend to occupy the more critical and reflexive end of the spectrum. In short, what Wertsch (2007, 2012) defines as conservative national narrative templates have the most power in framing the collective and individual remembering of those whose social and historical experience it most represents.
