Eric7216
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Unfortunately travel leads to a loss of that very thing that you are seeking. When culture meet there is a dulling of the domestic/native culture and a homogenizing or blending of society. Heterogeneity is lost. I would like Sweden to be Sweden but that is lost if I run into 5,000 Americans and various other non-Swedes. Asking directions in Madrid from someone who turns out to be a tourist from London. Rome and Siem Reap turn into a type of Disneyland. We need segregation to promote diversity and without sufficient diversity we become a bland blob of KFCs and Starbucks and Nikes.I'll skip sharing the brilliant, deep thoughts when it comes to the theories or the legalese of immigration (joke) -- My thoughts here only stem from my belief that I am a worldly person and also take immense joy in traveling the world, interacting with people of different backgrounds, and getting to have fascinating multicultural experiences. There's nothing like getting lost in Paris; or eating at a Hawker market in Singapore until you can't move. Or clubbing in Mexico City with people who speak a different language, or beaching on the Gold Coast in Australia. I live for that type of stuff. Which is what an open and travel-able world has allowed me to do.
I'd like to have that type of world continue. Even more so too. I want to have a world that does not segregate itself based on artificial identities and does not place sovereignty over an individual's ability to travel, work or live where she pleases. I enjoy being empowered to chose my own happiness, and I don't want to be restricted to a the square plot of soil that I happened to be born upon.
So obvious that leads me to being very super pro-immigration.
I loved travelling but have curtailed it so that others may have a small taste of the real experience. Travel was more fun in the 1960s. You have to go further off the beaten path than the common places that you mentioned to get something approaching indigenous cultural immersion.