Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
~ Mark Twain
Mark Twain on Travel is Fatal to Prejudice :: Why Go… :: Travel Inspiration
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He was right. I saw this when I realized two of my refugee friends had to leave their house because of US-led bombing in the city. As friends he couldn’t hold it against me personally, and as an American I had to put down my “America is always righteous” perspective. And I saw that when two of my other Russian friends, newly married, visited a museum in Budapest and were shocked to learn for the first time that the other Communist countries in the Warsaw Pact really DIDN’T want to Soviet army in their countries – contrary to what they had been told all their lives. They were both about 23 and mostly grew up after the collapse of the Soviet Union.