AskewLordWhy is traveling such a big deal for people?
https://piefed.social/c/asklemmy/p/1797270/why-is-traveling-such-a-big-deal-for-people
Compared to some bumpkin who’s never been more than 100 miles from home, though, you definitely have more perspective on the world.
This is the biggest selling point of travel for me. Traveling expands your worldview and allows you to see firsthand other people and cultures. To realize that all humans are the same no matter where we’re from.
I’ve never met anyone snobby about travel, but the experience and worldview is why I’m passionate about it and think everyone should do it at least a little. Empathy is severely lacking in the world.
What if he had an internet connection? What if the person who travels just does it so they can be hedonistic somewhere nobody knows them (as it tends to happen, like Brits in Spain and all the "eat, pray, love girlies)? Sometimes it’s a cultural experience, most of the time it isn’t, from what I’ve seen.
SharkWeekYup, as a British immigrant to Spain there is precisely 1 other British person who lives here that I talk to … most I’ve met have zero interest in the language, culture, or people outside of touristy things.
Meanwhile, I’m working in Vietnam at the moment, and my Spanish coworker’s who came with me have the same attitude towards Vietnam.
So, I think most people just aren’t interested in the realities of different lived experiences of others. Sometimes in conversation I’ll dangle a lure for someone to ask me about an atypical part of my life, and 9 times out of 10 they show no curiosity.
It is definitely possible to travel and not experience culture.
Thinking you understand culture byecuwse you have the internet is sort of admitting your that type of person.
The problem with talking to randoms online is the things they don’t say because it’s their normal. Experiencing those differences in normals is what is being discussed here.
When I was in school this was a literally social studies topic discuss many times over all the years we learned about other cultures which really reinforces that some people dont pay enough attention to receive any value from travel.
That doesn’t mean other can’t or don’t.