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> However Jeff Atwood is from the USA which has a strangley low number of passport holders. It's not strangely low; Americans can travel to far more than the e
by anamax 16y ago
> However Jeff Atwood is from the USA which has a strangley low number of passport holders.
It's not strangely low; Americans can travel to far more than the equivalent of the EU without one. (We can go to all 50 plus Canada and Mexico.)
- simonsarris 16y agoI am under the impression that we can no longer go to Canada without a passport. :( Edit: Since June 2009.
- WildUtah 16y agoYou can't go to Mexico without a passport either. You can't come back without one, anyway. The US Gov does now issue passport cards which are a form of national ID card that allows citizens back in at international LAND borders. You should ask for one when you apply for your passport; they're nice to carry in your pocket when you're abroad and the full passport is safely locked away.
- rbanffy 16y agoThis notion of equivalence is a very interesting concept.
- anamax 16y agoThe US is is geographically larger than Europe, has a comparable number of people, and is arguably as diverse. Yes, it looks like we speak the same language, but the diversity in "American" is at least as broad as the difference between the middle of "American" and "received English". (Yes, I'm aware that there's a lot of diversity in UK English.) Yes, Americans mostly watch the same TV, but our exports and castoffs are not unknown in Europe.
- rmc 16y agoAmerica is not as lingusitically diverse as Europe. The difference between 2 American english accents might be similar to the difference between 2 English accents, but there are dozens of languages in europe. You're comparing the whole of the US to one part of EU.
- dctoedt 16y agoIf memory serves, if you don't have a passport you can go to Mexico, you just can't get back into the U.S.