Speaking of "exotic experiences" overseas travel is another over-done fixation of the modern yuppie. "What weird place have you been doing something weird?" is apparently how you size up the Joneses these days.
They'll blather on about how some trip expanded their mind and so forth, despite not speaking any of the language or knowing anything of the history and only being there briefly.
Beats staying at home. Certainly learning languages and history are Good Things, but I'll take somebody who has traveled extensively over somebody who's never left their own country any day of the week.
They'll blather on about how some trip expanded their mind and so forth, despite not speaking any of the language or knowing anything of the history and only being there briefly.