If you don’t know less than 50% of Americans have a passport. The ones who don’t, I really see the limitation in their thinking. They never saw that most of the world is in fact freer than them, has a better system in place for their people, and doesn’t have some of the major problems that America has. I’m currently in a country where over 90% of items are made in that country. America (made in China) can’t comprehend this efficiency. P.S. I’m American

The thing that gets me though is how dangerous many Americans say other parts of the world is without having ever been there lol. I travel and I’ll tell you America is the MOST dangerous country outside of warzones. Yes even more dangerous that Arab countries for women. Lol I know that propaganda is in a lot of Americans minds.

OK so who’s actually been outside the country and can talk geopolitics and actually know from experience what they are talking about?

  • MoonMelon@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    I’m not a huge traveler, but I’ve been to the UK and parts of Europe. The Czech Republic was my favorite place, of the places I’ve been. Ironically never been to Canada, despite having some extended family there. I would love to go, and I love being in foreign places, but I hate getting there. Travel is awful, especially now.

    I’ve lived in both urban and rural areas, and the fear is constant everywhere among people who have never traveled. Urban people are afraid that everyone in the country is a Deliverance KKK member, and rural people think the cities are a gang-infested war zone. What’s wild is that, unlike visiting other countries, they could just hop in the car and visit the city or countryside for a weekend. They are consuming lazy media tropes and taking them as fact.

    Traveling, even just regional travel, would benefit a lot of people in the USA. We have way more in common with each other than with the oligarchs.

    • TheDeed [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      18 hours ago

      Urban people are afraid that everyone in the country is a Deliverance KKK member

      Idk, some parts of the US are genuinely dangerous if you aren’t the right kind of person. When I drive across the US I stop to piss and get gas/food and that’s about it. Being stared down by the locals or refused service is a thing that happens, or worse if you don’t take the hint. I’m black and gay and yeah there’s just places that are off limits.

      Not my job to sit down and have a dialogue with them or change minds and open hearts, I GTFO before I become a missing person.