What’s that one thing you wish someone told you before your first international trip?
Let’s say you’re helping construct a travel class and you’re in the international section of the course.
What’s one thing you believe would be most useful to learn?
When the World Changes, So Does the Journey
Political tension, economic shifts and global conflicts quietly influence everything dealing with travel because moving around as a human is inevitable. We as humans have to co-exist. That’s in a perfect world, but because we don’t all see things the same way, we’ll make living in this world tougher for some over others. That includes affecting people we dislikes’ ability to get places.
We’re in a digital era! Do you know what that means? I think it validates our tendency as humanity to monitor more things. That’s capturing more things on camera. Ultimately that leads to needing footage that’s scandalous and controversial. It gets conversations going. Sometimes it’s out a fear. Sometimes it’s passion. Regardless, these things play a role in people’s decisions to travel. There’s economic impacts that affect a country’s financial status. That as example makes a difference in convenience for a foreigner to obtain a VISA. I can even recall moments of global attention that affected American travel to Middle Eastern countries.
Social media, cultural misunderstandings, and even international propaganda (or narratives) can affect the way that travelers are treated abroad. Most (if not all of them) are platforms that develop into creating entertainment that ends up creating impact. The problem is that it continues to show that truth doesn’t matter as much when the lie is more entertaining (as the honorable Charlamagne Tha God introduced the thought) in this content creation culture. People begin to construct opinions and share influential thoughts that inspire others to take action —make of that what you will.
It can be a complete and utter disaster when traveling internationally on an emotional level. That’s from imagination, but let’s include a reference from the real world. Not the tv show either. I’m talking about the time at school when you get others that are foreign exchange in essence. Pay special attention: to those that haven’t had classes with these kind of students in them.
They must’ve had the toughest time adjusting. Especially in the USA. That’s like being expected to adapt at a game with it being placed on “Hard Mode”. The language is one of the toughest to learn and speak fluently. You’re still expected to get work completed, and your social life might not be at the level you would ideally have it at.
You don’t have to have travelled internationally to incorporate some common sense with safety in terms of doing it. Preparing for such an event could be done with taking formal classes if necessary. Gathering experiences with more regional trips would be helpful too.
As far as more social interaction words of advice, it’ll be best to practice more on being a pleasing personality. That could be done with practicing the golden rule more often too. That includes being more respectful and try leading through uncertainty more often. Consider doing something you’ve never done before. That confidence compounds eventually and could definitely transfer over to this kind of situation.
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