Travel does give a great perspective. We’ve been 45 countries: twice to India, to Nepal, to Egypt, to Peru, to Cambodia, to Jordan and many others. Thank God for the USA! You will never catch us “taking a knee”.
Agreed...i think most don’t have any real idea of what life is like for a lot of the world..
Just got back from three months in Australia.
Not too bad. Gas is $5 a gallon, electricity, 39 cents a kilowatt hour.
Food did not impress me, service was ok. (no tipping)
People were wonderful, generally, but consumer choices limited. They are just starting to get supermarkets.
Living on a multimillion dollar farm, where electricity was used extremely carefully, I was usually too cold or too hot.
The USN took me to 75 different countries.
By far the worst was Pakistan. You could smell Karachi from 20 miles out. Simply putrid.
Surprisingly civilized and clean was Kenya.
That said, I will not travel outside the US again.
People here, even the poor, don’t know how good they have it. Not even peripheral awareness.