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Anonymous (ID: 1kTwul1m) Israel No.512963362 >>512963494 >>512963709 >>512963858 >>512964140 >>512966419
how does travelling affect your political ideologies?
Anonymous (ID: 0kI2qQ4+) United States No.512963494
>>512963362 (OP)
I was a lot less racist before I travelled overseas
Anonymous (ID: ETEHlNnj) United States No.512963709
>>512963362 (OP)
It makes you realize really quickly that many people do not live well compared to westerners. It bums you out a bit. You also stop feeling this empathy the moment you go to places like India because everyone there is a fucking asshole.
Anonymous (ID: Q7sdYuFi) United States No.512963855
Made me less sympathetic to the homeless because I spent a month going around South Korea and the number of homeless I saw (panhandling, sleeping on the streets, wearing ratted clothes, random yelling) was about the same number I see on my daily commute in Atlanta.
Anonymous (ID: /y9kmfKT) United States No.512963858
>>512963362 (OP)
I was a raging anti-Semite until I went to Israel and had shakshuka.
Anonymous (ID: nQiff9u5) United Kingdom No.512963947
I have never left my country of England.
Anonymous (ID: fvh4XlFa) United Kingdom No.512964140
>>512963362 (OP)
I travelled to many countries in Asia for a year and I realised how some places are an absolute dump. I thought the UK was a shithole (still is), but I've visited Manila, Philippines for the first time and it was repulsive.
Anonymous (ID: zWyzGaxi) United States No.512966419
>>512963362 (OP)
It makes you appreciate other cultures and gives you an understanding on why the preservation of your own is very important.

You also discover that, in a majority of the world, the most idiotic people some how outlasted the intelligent.