How Many of You Hold Passports?
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 1:48 pm
Scrat;690173 wrote: Gmc or someone asked me why Americans don't seem to travel as much. I think its because we have just about all we need here. We can go to the Carribean with little cost and little effort whereas to go to the Maldives the cost and the effort would be pretty high.
We do get to Europe but anywhere else is just a little to inconvenient, especially now that we all need passports to get back into the country.
You think you do perhaps but the point about going to a foreign country is it's actually Foreign. I rather get the impression that most americans think the rest of the world is like america except they don't speak english. The culture is different, attitudes are very different. most here are familiar with american culture thanks to TV and film but that doesn't mean their own is forgotten. Indeed american culture is increasingly become very different from the rest of the world, not least because you don't play proper football and have turned rounders in to a national sport and have world series where the rest of the world don't take part.
On the other hand I know many British people who go abroad every year and just sit on a beach or get plastered and do what they do at home. There are also many who don't know their own country at all. One of my work colleagues took relatives round the highlnds and came back raving about the scenery. Living in edinbirgh for over 35 years he had never been west of Glasgow.
posted by sunny 104
for most people in smaller countries, if there is something specific they want to do they have to go someplace else to do it.
As for us, we have it all in our own country. If we want to go to the beach (any time of year) or go skiing or spend some time in a huge city or a quaint historical town or do something tourist-y, etc. we have all that right here.
Actually living in a small country the beach is no more than 26 miles away, if I want to visit a quaint historical town (except none of ours are in a time warp, people live and work in them) or do something touristy that is less than an hour away. If I want to look at a 4,000 year old stone age settlement there is one just up the road. The mountains are a couple of hours away but I like the french and italian ones because they put pubs on the top of them. If I want arctic scenery i can head up north or if I want to see palm trees growing in the wild I just head west.
For some obscure reason I keep meeting texans on mountain bikes in the middle of the hills usually when it's raining who all seem to find the drizzle wonderful because it's so cool and everything's so green. They couldn't understand a word i said at first but I found if you speak slowly they did speak a form of English. Do you send your eccentrics abroad or are they typical of texans?
I have never visited the states-will some day but to see some of the country rather than the cities.
We do get to Europe but anywhere else is just a little to inconvenient, especially now that we all need passports to get back into the country.
You think you do perhaps but the point about going to a foreign country is it's actually Foreign. I rather get the impression that most americans think the rest of the world is like america except they don't speak english. The culture is different, attitudes are very different. most here are familiar with american culture thanks to TV and film but that doesn't mean their own is forgotten. Indeed american culture is increasingly become very different from the rest of the world, not least because you don't play proper football and have turned rounders in to a national sport and have world series where the rest of the world don't take part.
On the other hand I know many British people who go abroad every year and just sit on a beach or get plastered and do what they do at home. There are also many who don't know their own country at all. One of my work colleagues took relatives round the highlnds and came back raving about the scenery. Living in edinbirgh for over 35 years he had never been west of Glasgow.
posted by sunny 104
for most people in smaller countries, if there is something specific they want to do they have to go someplace else to do it.
As for us, we have it all in our own country. If we want to go to the beach (any time of year) or go skiing or spend some time in a huge city or a quaint historical town or do something tourist-y, etc. we have all that right here.
Actually living in a small country the beach is no more than 26 miles away, if I want to visit a quaint historical town (except none of ours are in a time warp, people live and work in them) or do something touristy that is less than an hour away. If I want to look at a 4,000 year old stone age settlement there is one just up the road. The mountains are a couple of hours away but I like the french and italian ones because they put pubs on the top of them. If I want arctic scenery i can head up north or if I want to see palm trees growing in the wild I just head west.
For some obscure reason I keep meeting texans on mountain bikes in the middle of the hills usually when it's raining who all seem to find the drizzle wonderful because it's so cool and everything's so green. They couldn't understand a word i said at first but I found if you speak slowly they did speak a form of English. Do you send your eccentrics abroad or are they typical of texans?
I have never visited the states-will some day but to see some of the country rather than the cities.
