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Originally Posted by biccat
With a telephone pole:eek::)
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Originally Posted by biccat
With a telephone pole:eek::)
That makes NO sense at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cold Warrior
[QUOTE=Gingersnap;14922]If you are never going to travel outside the country and you have no interest in reading literature or research, knowing another language is simply unnecessary. It is an accomplishment akin to ballroom dancing.
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Why was the study of foreign languages required by schools back in the day when people traveled abroad far less than they do now?
That picture just looks wrong.
Because you have dependents and a low income, because you own a farm and you can't leave it for that length of time, because you have no interest in travel, because your discretionary income is earmarked for something else or just because.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cold Warrior
There are many millions of people who never cross a border and aren't aching to do so. While there are benefits to travel in an educational sense, those benefits are actually declining with globalization.
I can understand why some people are not able to travel. I don't understand the comment about the benefits of travel "actually declining with globalization", though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gingersnap
Most of those EU travelers have not seen all the wonderful sights in this beautiful country. I have been to Germany but have no interest in going to France. I think it is a f. up country.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gingersnap
One interpretation could be that the influence of globalization is making the world a bit of a cookie-cutter so that one place is like another. In some ways the US is like that. Why would anyone, for example, want to visit Jacksonville, FL or San Diego, CA, as they're made up of the same malls, with the same shops, selling the same goods.Quote:
Originally Posted by linda22003
One of my friends went to France and said that the people outside of Paris are very friendly to american tourists. It's just in Paris that they are obnoxious.Quote:
Originally Posted by lacarnut
Because opportunities to interact with other cultures, both virtual and IRL, are increasing everyday within the borders of many countries. It's possible to sample completely authentic foods, entertainments, and events without ever leaving home. I can at any time relax in a Russian steam bath, eat Moroccan food, view a traditional Thai storyteller, observe several types of Buddhist ceremonies, and learn North African spinning techniques from a North African and I live in Colorado!Quote:
Originally Posted by linda22003
The other side of this coin is that urban centers are increasingly more similar than different around the world. You see the same clothes, hear the same music, eat the same food you could get at home, and shop for the same merchandise. Needless to say, English is spoken almost everywhere.