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I think the best trip I made in my life was in China. Best food I've ever ate. We did one week in Shanghai and another in Beijing. I think it was back in 2016 or so.
Pictured: the shanghai beer bottle opener
Pictured: the shanghai beer bottle opener
I've been planning on visiting the UK to talk to a couple friends I've got there; does anyone have any tips?
How unwelcome are yank tourists globally right now? My instinctive assumption is ‘very’, backed up by the way I see people talking, but I can concede online discourse on Twitter etc might not be the best way to gauge.
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Most people don't care because the kinds of americans that do tourism in europe are not the kinds that vote for trump. At best you might get inquisitive questions on people asking who you voted for but if you give the right answer people won't mind it.
From what I know the only places where people actually dislike american tourists are mexico (cause they're tired of having too many gringos on their beaches) and australia (because the aussies have a weird one-sided hatred towards the US which doesn't even make any sense half the time), other than that, there shouldn't be any issues.
Most people don't care because the kinds of americans that do tourism in europe are not the kinds that vote for trump. At best you might get inquisitive questions on people asking who you voted for but if you give the right answer people won't mind it.
From what I know the only places where people actually dislike american tourists are mexico (cause they're tired of having too many gringos on their beaches) and australia (because the aussies have a weird one-sided hatred towards the US which doesn't even make any sense half the time), other than that, there shouldn't be any issues.
Travelling can be interesting in the sense, that it's nice to see things that you have read about and seen online. But a lot of the things you see are pretty bland and boring.
You will realize that most cities have pretty similar shops with regional variants or the same brand shops as everywhere else. The restaurants usually just serve similar food as anywhere else, and with globalization there aren't really any unique drinks or dishes, and the whole experience can be pretty bland. Italian gelato is really just ice cream. French wine served in Bordeaux really is just wine. And so on.
My favourite experiences while travelling and the observations I have enjoyed the most have been the differences in people. Going to poorer countries you will often see something you don't see in wealthier Asian and Northern European countries. People milling. You can of course find people milling in Northern countries but they will usually be from poorer southern countries. You begin to realize that Kantian philosophy holds merit. If everyone just mills about nothing gets done and whole continents can become poor, dirty and unsafe by people's selfish behaviour.
Another observation is that people look quite different, and things that are taken for granted really are quite special. Most people in southern countries are short, fat and swarthy. Quite unpleasant to look at with big noses and bulging eyes. A tall, slim, blonde person sticks out like a demigod in many places. Asian people acknowledge this. Kind of makes you appreciate them more.
You will realize that most cities have pretty similar shops with regional variants or the same brand shops as everywhere else. The restaurants usually just serve similar food as anywhere else, and with globalization there aren't really any unique drinks or dishes, and the whole experience can be pretty bland. Italian gelato is really just ice cream. French wine served in Bordeaux really is just wine. And so on.
My favourite experiences while travelling and the observations I have enjoyed the most have been the differences in people. Going to poorer countries you will often see something you don't see in wealthier Asian and Northern European countries. People milling. You can of course find people milling in Northern countries but they will usually be from poorer southern countries. You begin to realize that Kantian philosophy holds merit. If everyone just mills about nothing gets done and whole continents can become poor, dirty and unsafe by people's selfish behaviour.
Another observation is that people look quite different, and things that are taken for granted really are quite special. Most people in southern countries are short, fat and swarthy. Quite unpleasant to look at with big noses and bulging eyes. A tall, slim, blonde person sticks out like a demigod in many places. Asian people acknowledge this. Kind of makes you appreciate them more.
>Most people in southern countries are short, fat and swarthy. Quite unpleasant to look at with big noses and bulging eyes. A tall, slim, blonde person sticks out like a demigod in many places.
I think your biases are leading you to strange conclusions, the average spaniard is a dude named "manolo" who looks like picrel, meanwhile you look at the average swede and they look downright uncanny. Look at the average fat, bloated, dutch tourist with their sandals underneath their socks on the beach in Valencia and tell me they're the übermensch.
I think your biases are leading you to strange conclusions, the average spaniard is a dude named "manolo" who looks like picrel, meanwhile you look at the average swede and they look downright uncanny. Look at the average fat, bloated, dutch tourist with their sandals underneath their socks on the beach in Valencia and tell me they're the übermensch.
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