Travel Is Not An Achievement

My opinion of this article is coming from a place of privilege and elitism. What about ppl who didn't grow up w/ much or didn't to travel abroad in college. Ppl who prob didnt start making money until their 30s travel is a huge accomplishment. Just to see what else is out there.

Look that truth of the mater is most ppl aint happy with their lives. Unless your a billionaire or have magic wand ur going to have to deal with the mundane rat race and proletariat struggle journey

It sounds more like a person who's traveled so much that it's become boring to her. She cant compare her experience w/ everyone else's.

Look sometime working class ppl need cheap vacations just to get away. I dont see nothing wrong with that.

 

Title should have been...

"I'm Privileged!, Therefore if you do things I've been doing for years, you're lame."

Girl Bye

 

I don't agree with the general tone of the article, but I can understand some of her point.

In hindsight, I always roll my eyes when I see many of us a black people posting our PASSPORT on Facebook like its an accomplishment. Almost like its a diploma. Really?

Im glad you are ready to travel and the world is an amazing place. But dude, you just filled out an application, paid, and went to the post office. Its not a ceremony we need to dress up and attend because you finally have the paperwork to go to Spain.

 

Slightly disagree. It wasn’t uncommon for folks to dress up for travel in the next ast, even locally. A lot of older black folk have told me it was considered déclassé in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s to wear anything than Sunday best when going downtown in Chicago back in the day. And until the 1980s, most people dressed UP to go on air flights. I didn’t realize this until my boss, who is actually younger than me showing me pictures of his grandparents and him flying to “the old country” when he was a kid in the early 80s.

Considering how long black folks movement has been restricted I’m glad to see bros and sis happy over getting the hell outta dodge. Travel does broaden one’s scope. i’ve known a lot of bros who escaped the inner city through military service and prospered once they realize America is NOT the whole world.

 

Yikes.

For starters, most people die within 50 miles of where they were born. For me, that seems like a horrifically sad set of circumstances giving how vast the world is. 70% of Americans do not have a passport or any other type of travel document, therefore the vast majority of Americans are not equipped to leave even if they had the resources to do so.

Travelling advances culture and enhances the human experience. That proposition is the same for domestic and international travel. The tone of this article is so cynical that it is almost idiotic.

On the superficial level, this blog posting reads like entitled white women on a quest to save everyone from themselves. On a deeper level, this could be an attempt to discredit cosmopolitism and globalization which is a fundamental tenant of ultra-right movements springing up around the world.

Final point, Travelling can truly change one's understanding of self and space in the world. Ask anyone what they remember about being someplace other than the relative comforts of America? Or better yet, ask people from rural America what they thought about traveling to a place like Vegas or Orlando. Travelling from your sleepy community to somewhere else can be rewarding and open opportunities that were not previously thought about.

 

I think you mis-understood what I was saying. I was using the analogy of "its not a ceremony we need to dress up and attend'' meaning that when people show their passport, just their passport, on Facebook its as if their showing a diploma. Like when we dress up and go to someones graduation to celebrate their achievement. As as if they want us to celebrate them getting a passport.

I wasn't talking about dressing up to travel.

But now that I think about it, I can understand someones excitement by showing their passport. It absolutely isn't anything wrong with being excited to travel. Traveling is an amazing experience. And maybe they were in a position where they never thought they would be able to go to another country. If that is the case, the author of this article is an idiot, because for many it absolutely is an achievement.

 

i feel you bruh. I’m trying to get back to my college motto (title of a Smokey Robinson song) “ Be Kind to the Growing Mind.” Sometime people don’t express things the way we might but it’s good to see the light go on in their heads.

 

Eventho she clearly benefited from pivileges that many others lacked, I do feel like it has become a 'thing' amongst the most pretentious out there to wear passport stamps like scout badges. Hell, at this point, since 'everyone' has been to DR and Mexico, you have ppl claiming how visiting those places isn't 'real' traveling. Now you have ppl acting like they're in the travel olympics going for gold because they've been to ______.

 

Iraq Combat Zone? If someone tried to be snooty to others like that and putting them down, I’d guess I’d pull out my photos of charred bodies and severed limbs in Al Anbar streets and say “top dat travelogue, beeyotch.”

 

Umm...

 

Puts DR and Mexico back in play. Disneyworld too!

All in all, a trip to Iceland is cheap and peaceful. I’ve been told to stay away from the fermented shark, though, by an acquaintance from there.
Hákarl - Wikipedia

 

I can't keep up w you!!

But I'm all about DR n Mexico! It's mofos who feel special because they've been to fukn Prague who look down.

Do I look like I give a fuk about ever goin to Prague?!

I'm always down for a DR All-inclusive where I might find me a bae.

 

I’m sorry, but this dish looks like something Gordon Ramsay dismisses a contestant for, on “Master Chef”...

 

I don't think the distant or the amount it cost matters. Traveling is great and should be exciting, especially if you come from a place where people don't leave their neighborhood let alone their block. The person who wrote this is probably one of those people who hate when something becomes popular that they been doing. Achievements are subjective by person and to me traveling is a awesome achievement!