This last couple of years I seen a lot of changes in the world, and even though I’m Mexican I’ve like to think that that’s my nationality but that’s not where I belong I belong to the whole world, I might be Mexican but I’ve learned from a lot of different countries and I hate to see people trying to blame or define a country because of what they so.
THANKS TO TRAVEL I’VE BEEN ABLE TO ERASE STEREOTYPES FROM MY MIND.
When I was younger I was told that US citizens where all racist with Latin Americans, that they always where rude and harsh when you acids ked something, the first time I went I asked for directions to a lady and she took a sheet of paper out and drew a map of how I would get there, she never questioned where or my family was from, that was not racist.
People in my country have said to me French people always get mad if you speak in English or Spanish, if you do that they are not going to talk to you in your language…when I got there I spoke French and the people that helped me sometimes spoke to me in English because they new I was having a hard time in French, the people also talked to my family in English so they understood.
I’ve also heard Germans are cold, when I went to Germany I asked for a tabern to a couple and they walked me like to streets so I didn’t got lost, they also drew in a map places we should see.
I can go on and on through a list of stereotypes that are misplaced and that have a huge impact on how we see others, how we tend to discriminate people, because it do affects us, but travel has changed my thought I’m a much tolerant person.
The benefits of travel are endless but I believe this is one of the most beautiful ones, you start to empathize with the culture, country, and people, you start talking to natives and see that they are just like you…a human, a human that is so simple and yet so complicated that loves, that laughs, that cries as much as soon you do, that hates or love the goverment or maybe you dont speak the same language and you smike and they smile you back and then in that moment you just connect.
That’s why I travel to connect myself my history, to learn that my country can achieve awesome stuff like Singapore, to learn that I have to love each person so we don’t fall in something like the holocaust, to learn that all countries are made from immigrants and that I should be grateful because without them my country would be way to different in architecture, gastronomy and art.
BECAUSE I TRAVEL TO LOVE MYSELF AND OTHERS.
Worlds Cafune 