Re: Getting Lost


"Iceman" <oneofcold@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1138727132.750327.205140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> "Sounds like that OZ / NZ syndrome. Somehow being born in one or the
> other means you have constantly itchy feet."
>
Probably less than 1 in 20 Americans will ever get
> any farther outside the US than the major European cities or a Mexican
> beach resort.
>
> "It's like you feel the need to travel the world and tell everyone
> about how great OZ / NZ is."
>
> For most Americans or Japanese, taking a year
> off to travel would be risking their careers. In Oz/NZ, it's almost
> like a rite of passage.
>

Boy, you talk with authority, but your statistics are unsupportable. One in
twenty, huh? If you mean one in twenty *poor* Americans don't travel
overseas, then you might have something. If you said one in ten *rural*
Americans don't, you might be close. But if you're talking about
cosmopolitan Americans, I'd venture that amost everyone, statistically,
travels overseas. Put differently, the people in that demographic who
*don't* travel extensively is probably your 1 in 20.

I've never heard of anyone -- not a soul -- who was afraid of losing a job
to travel. On the contrary, my travels have helped me get hired sometimes,
at least by breaking the ice during interviews, and I've had jobs that
involved overseas travel partly owing to my experience as a vacationer.

There are any number of valid reasons to criticize this country, but calling
us all travel wusses sure isn't one of them.

Keith


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