12-28-2007, 04:21 PM
Evan Wrote:I knew a few rich girls in college who were already on their 2nd and 3rd passports and they were completely clueless about the state of the world or other cultures.
Perhaps I should qualify my statement by saying that people could stand to travel "outside the box." Going to 5 star resorts everywhere there's a beach wasn't exactly what I had in mind.
I think traveling can open people's eyes to the goods and bads of America. If they can find the motivation to better understand more about this country without traveling, great... I've just found that people most often realize how little they know about where they live after seeing how others do it.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth