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There's probably a bunch of people like me who just quit traveling. Before 9/11 I traveled for both business and pleasure quite often. The before and after pictures are completely different.
I quit traveling because I don't feel comfortable being an American outside of America. It's not the terrorist or criminals that scare me, it's the confrontational drunk in the bar, or the uneducated slug on public assistance blaming me for all the worlds problems. I've had people be rude, obnoxious, and totally assinine towards me only because I'm an American. Didn't take me long to just say screw it, I'm staying home. Read Skybirds dribble crap of a message. That's why I don't travel. There are actually people that stupid in the world, and I don't need or want to meet them. |
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My interactions with politically-minded foreigners have actually been pretty pleasant. It probably helps that I'm a liberal who thought that Bush screwed the country up pretty badly, but I've found that most foreigners are very capable of distinguishing between a country's government and its people.
I remember I was in London during the lead-up to the Iraq war, when they had a massive anti-war protest. I went to watch (but not participate), and I was very pleasantly surprised that among the hundreds of signs I saw and dozens of chants I heard, there was almost no generic anti-Americanism. Everything was either anti-war or anti-Bush. The only things that could have been interpreted as anti-Americanism were two blood-splattered American flags (and one of them was on the same poster as a blood-splattered Union Jack). I never felt uneasy or threatened, and when some of the people standing near us found out we were Americans they actually seemed pretty happy that we were there. When I go abroad I try to fit in with the local culture, but I don't try to hide the fact that I'm an American (my accent would give me away even if I tried). I get a lot of questions about the US, but they're usually more curious than confrontational. A lot of people just want to know what the US is really like. |
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Travel isn't about the distance coved. 200 miles in some parts of Europe can take you in to a radically different culture, lifestyle, language, nation, landscape etc. 2000 miles in Australia or America, for example, might only change the landscape. London to Moscow may be the same distance as [American City #1] to [American City #2], but that hardly tells the full story. Quote:
'Asian tourists', but I don't think they are treated differently, aside from people complaining about their driving more than European tourists. I don't know if there is any truth there.
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"Americans don't need to leave the country because you can travel so far within it whilst Europeans are obliged to leave their countries when they travel because their countries are so small."
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I remember arriving at a southern BBQ place in rural North Carolina with a guy from New Jersey. Now North Carolina isn't really Deep South, and New Jersey isn't as Yankee as you can get, but the poor guy still got a huge dose of culture shock. He was convinced that somebody there was going to grab one of the guns off the wall (or from their belt) and shoot him. |
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I've met several American tourists, and thus have formed a few points to follow, to survive interactions with British people:
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Isn't that an Americanism?
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An old joke...
Me - Well, I'm from Ireland American - Wow! My grandmother was an O'Flaherty! Did you know her? Me - Yes, (aside) but then everybody did ![]()
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Travel takes time and $$$.
Like it has been said most employers give little time off, I'm salary and get 2 weeks. And like others have said employers dislike you taking it all at once. The longest time I had been out of work, while I had a job was 1 week, and that was only because I had surgery on a tumor, and couldn't hold down food! And let me tell you that although we have sick days, I don't know anyone in my section who has used any when it hasn't been significant (there's only 4 of us). Don't get me wrong, I would LOVE to travel, but who has the time and money? Those who have both are fortunate. Anyways, I did this for another board that I am on, go ahead and post your own. Unfortunately I cannot say that I have added to this. Maybe if I win the Lottery.
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England is a great Country...it just needs a roof!
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