First off leave the politika talk at the door...this is not some grand social debate but a simple question for those who wish to answer is.
Would the world be more peaceful if travel was dirt cheap?
If you could travel to paris for $20 U.S. or hit Hong Kong for $50 would people gain a better world view and lose a bit of their uber nationalism? Would it allow for more understanding and tolorence? Would it finally show L.A. residents that Italian food for the most part in their region is OK at best?
Maybe that's what we need as a global community...a massive inferstructure to promote world travel cheaply, safely, and without the annoying hassles commonly associated with it.
Granted travel is cheaper than it use to be but their still seems to be more of a need to get people to go beyond their local 20mile buffer zones. I'd like to think that if we visited each other more often...we'd stop feeling so isolated, angry, and divided.
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