kamikaze tourist
n.— «Although fellow visitors to Baghdad or Kabul dub them the “Kamikaze tourists,” the Japanese media has come up with a more sophisticated term: heiwa boke—meaning “senility from peace.”» —“Wish you were here? The rise of the kamikaze tourist” by Colin Joyce, Colin Freeman Telegraph (U.K.) Sept. 11, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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