Travel broadens the mind - And other lies you can tell mutts for tourism bux.

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Dr. Ricearoni

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Does travel broaden the mind? I've recently left America for the first time last year on a vacation and got to experience another culture. And I learned something about other cultures. Namely they're not mine so I hate them. The locals hate you and the businesses only want you for your money. Anything worth seeing I can just look up on google from home and get roughly the same experience and the food is all terrible. Plus the act of actually traveling on a plane or a long fucking roadtrip is the most dreadful experience imaginable from start to finish and you've gotta do it twice.

What do you think? Is travel a scam or am I a closed-minded xenophobic retard? I just don't get the appeal at all. I mean it's not like fancy cheese, wine, or tacos dont exist in America so what gives?
 
If it's something you enjoy doing, yeah.

I personally don't even see a point in travelling outside my own city, but that's more of me being a shut-in than anything else. I absolutely hate wasting money, so habitual or chronic world 'explorers' make me twitch. Expensive visits to another place just because it looks pretty? Fuck no. I can just look up images of it online if I wanted that. You're not any better or worse for doing them so why bother?
 
i've travelled to other countries before and for me it's mostly about the unique cultures and places they offer, either your retarded xenophobia is kicking in or america is so muttified that one group of people there represents everyone in their origin countries
 
it can be very fun to travel internationally, but I think its apt to hate the global citizen type trust fund kids who (as a rare silver lining for the pandemic) were told no for once in their life. The irony is those same children aren't too different than global business magnates (sometimes their parents) in where they travel to, how they stay and how little they interact. I never expect anyone to be some meme polygot while traveling, but i really hate broad judgments about nations from people who couldn't even speak the tongue on the street. The counterpoint is that sometimes actually interacting has made me far more racist than i ever thought i was before.

For some including me, the journey is as fun as the destination, but that relies on just how much better most airlines are than the US oligopoly. For eating out the setting is just as important as the food quality, and there's some really cool stuff in every city and country worth trying. Elitism about the food itself is pretty pathetic, as you can import the ingredients, the workers, the silverware and people deep into the global travel mindset will still scoff as it being inauthentic.
 
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Fuck no. I can just look up images of it online if I wanted that. You're not any better or worse for doing them so why bother?
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This is exactly how I feel. What do I get out of seeing the Eiffel Tower in person, for example?
The feel of it? I know what metal feels like. And I know no one goes to France for the smell.
 
It's as good as the traveller themselves. If you're good you can comfortably travel to "red zones" for tourists and engage in banter while barely understanding each other at all. If you're an obese nincompoop manlet with health problems and an obnoxious accent you'll not survive outside a two-star hotel. And no, nobody cares about the "popular" destinations. It's the random streets, bizarro encounters (like a Wild Wild Wasteland) and ambience that does it good. Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia for example felt like a Ghost In The Shell metropolis, rife with poverty and cocky but wholesome swagger.
 
Depends why you're doing it. For fun, because it's a de facto "bucket list" thing, or because you want to "experience other culture" are pretty gay reasons imo. Those are the reasons Big Travel (lol) gives to us to see the world. Realistically if you're not doing it for personal growth or a new perspective, you're feeding the machine.

I used to fancy myself backpacking throughout the world doing jobs here and there to stay alive - I've worked with many people who still do it today. They always seem quite enriched. That, though, seems like the ultimate scam. You literally own nothing and you're happy with it.
 
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Well, that's the problem. You only see the nice part which every country wants to take off your money, A.K.A tourism. But at least they're the safest parts of that.
And i'm assuming it's Mexico. Oh yeah.
 
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america is so muttified that one group of people there represents everyone in their origin countries
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Depends where you go but North American cities have many self-contained diasporic communities that are highly representative of the actual lifestyles in their mother country. There's also so many of any given nation's citizens that you can get a pretty good sample size on opinions in and of their home country.
 
Doing it as a tourist you probably aren't going to learn much beyond a surface level understanding of the place that you could get from Wikipedia (at least you might be able to see cool artifacts/nature; Nature in particular you can get a lot out of even as a tourist). Oftentimes you're given a very warped idea of how the average person there lives as you're cajoled into the pricy touristy areas. If you come with the intent to get a more earnest experience you could learn more, especially if you have some sort of pen pal/family member you can stay with who will guide you around. I've done the latter a couple times and had a good time.
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This is exactly how I feel. What do I get out of seeing the Eiffel Tower in person, for example?
The feel of it? I know what metal feels like. And I know no one goes to France for the smell.
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Yeah Paris seems kind of meh to me (especially nowadays), perhaps it would be worth it for the culinary experience. You might like something in nature, despite being cliché the Grand Canyon was really cool. I do agree that driving sucks and flying also sucks which is why I don't go on many vacations far away from where I live.
 
Maybe back in the day there were some perks to it, but not anymore
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I think it does, but not in the way a lot of retarded liberal elitists want to pretend it does.

People are people regardless of where you go, so yes, seeing gypsies and shit and them trying to pickpocket you except ha you little gypsy fuck, I have my wallet around my neck for a reason...that won't give you that much. The brown people don't have so much to teach you, or whatever.

On the other hand something to keep in mind is that the US isn't that old. You will see almost nothing in the US that was built more than a couple hundred years ago.

Meanwhile there are still standing castles in Europe that date back a millennium. That stuff is a little more useful because it's things people made that speak for themselves, and if you're a neurotic weirdo you'll be able to notice details that few other people consider and be like "Oh, I see where you're coming from person from 700 years ago, that's a really good idea". It helps you remember there was a time before now, where there were individuals not much different from you.
 
You won't 'enrich your culture' if you visit as a tourist. Living there, yes. But visiting as a tourist?

I used to travel a lot and I must tell you, I despise super touristic places. They're over expensive, nothing to see and overall shit.

If you want to have a nice beach vacation, or drinking vacation, or even a full inclusive resort, go for it. There's plenty of festivals to see or activities to do. Go see museums if that's what you're into.

Traveling to a neighboring country to barfly and hook up with some local whore won't enrich your culture.
 
Dr. Ricearoni dijo:
This is exactly how I feel. What do I get out of seeing the Eiffel Tower in person, for example?
The feel of it? I know what metal feels like. And I know no one goes to France for the smell.
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And isn't Paris actually a shithole? At least, that's what I've heard from the frogs who laugh at the scenes on movies and TV
 
There are two respectable reasons to travel: to see cool historical or natural shit, and to bang exotic women.
 
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It can be enriching, but these days, like with many things, it's hyper commercialized. I think the tourism industry in a way has diluted the experience you'd hope to get. Plus, with globohomo so rampant in many countries and the covid hysteria still being played out in some areas, it's probably not worth it.

The notion of becoming wiser through travels probably stems from the European Grand Tour custom of the 1600s where the young progeny of wealthy families would pretty much spend months touring new places and learning stuff. The internet to some degree bridges that gap, but of course experiencing the real thing is different for better or worse.
 
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