"...We live in a world now where one can jet from New York to Paris and onto Tokyo without experiencing even the slightest bit of cultural dislocation. We imagine an interconnected world made smaller by Facebook and Twitter. For the sanguine traveler today plopping themselves down in a cookie-cutter Starbucks in some exotic locale with a laptop and WiFi and ordering - in English - a caffe latte from the local barista only seems to fuel this illusion of verisimilitude...