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Originally Posted by uproared
I live in Australia.
I'm 19 years old, and I've been overseas about 12 times. In fact, this year alone I've backpacked Europe by myself for 3 months, went to Vietnam, and I just got back from a trip to Bali about 3 weeks ago...
It's more expensive for Australian's to travel than it is for people in the US, PLUS our currency is weaker...yet we continue to enlighten ourselves by travelling overseas and gaining a more 'rounded' perspective of the world (no pun intended).
Cheers
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Exactly, it takes a long time and a lot of money to get anywhere from Australia and we are using a weaker currency as well. Australia is one of the world's biggest travelling nations.
Most Americans have no interest in international travel because they have been brainwashed from an early age to believe that the rest of the world has nothing to offer and that the USA is number one in everything.
I've backpacked across every continent and spent more than a year on the road out of the last seven.
Anyone who says that America has as many unique cultures as Europe does is just showing their ignorance. Anyone who has done more than a couple of month in Europe knows this is bullshit.
I travelled from Italy to Germany on a night train last week and those two countries are as different as night and day.