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[quote=Anonymous]I'm kind of surprised this thread is still going, because the OP seemed so unbelievably clueless and tone deaf.

First, to level set, I've had a passport since I was 2 mos old and my parents took me back to their home country for my uncle's wedding. I've regularly traveled internationally since I was an infant.

But some of the posts here remind me of things people would say to me when I was studying abroad in the UK. They would talk about how only x% of Americans had passports. My response was 1) yeah, but I'm obviously one of them so why be rude. And 2) going from Nebraska to South Dakota is a longer trip than France to Germany. For all of their worldliness, Europeans have no sense of American geography and what a huge country this is.

Would I like to see more Americans travel abroad to get a better sense of the world? Yes. Do I think a European who's been to the UK, France, and Germany is vastly more cultured than an American who's been to 10 of 50 states? I do not.[/quote]

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