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Travel is a surrogate "hobby" for people who don't really have a hobby, but want to do something that makes them look interesting.

eshack94 3y ago
This isn't universally true. Some people truly enjoy experiencing other cultures and parts of the world for its own sake. Not everyone who travels for pleasure and curiosity are doing it "for the gram". That being said, there are also many people who are.
yungporko 3y ago
i have several hobbies and there are countless places all over the world that i'd love to see if i could afford to
mewpmewp2 3y ago
You must live in a good climate. I mainly travel to avoid shitty climate.
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uoaei 3y ago
Spoken like someone with an overconfidence in their own judgments and an underappreciation of alternative worldviews.
- MisterBastahrd 3y ago
  If you're taking a trip for a week at a time somewhere, you are experiencing their tourism industry, not their culture. Experiencing culture requires you to remain in a place for a period of time, and you don't get that by visiting shops and bars. You get that by building relationships with people where they are.
  - uoaei 3y ago
    Depends entirely how you approach it. You can build relationships that last a day and still learn a lot.
seer 3y ago
While that could be considered true, isn't it the same as saying "playing the satar" is a shitty surrogate hobby for people who are too afraid to travel and explore other cultures? A good hobby will positively affect one's live, be a source of personal pride and sense of accomplishment. You can be the guy who obsesses about metallurgy and makes the sharpest knifes in your basement. Consequently that gets you to brag about it to your referent group and make you feel a sense of joy, apart from the joy you feel when you do the crafting itself. Similar with traveling - immersing yourself in foreign cultures and trying to understand them is very much akin to endeavouring to learn a new programming language, or starting an open source project to test out some cool tech. With luck you'll get something tangible (photos and videos of trip / git repo with cool code), will have the memory of the joy you felt with the exploration and will have something to talk about with your referent group. Sure there are people who abuse traveling to make it for the status rather than for the joy, but isn't that true with everything? In the end, if it brought you joy, and you didn't harm anyone, it would could be worthwhile to you. And an old folk saying I've heard ones said "whatever you eat and drink nobody can take away from you". Its the experience that matter.
hijklmnopq 3y ago
We bow to your supreme art of traveling. Please share so us plebs know how to travel What a dumbass comment

eshack94 3y ago

This isn't universally true. Some people truly enjoy experiencing other cultures and parts of the world for its own sake. Not everyone who travels for pleasure and curiosity are doing it "for the gram". That being said, there are also many people who are.

yungporko 3y ago

i have several hobbies and there are countless places all over the world that i'd love to see if i could afford to

mewpmewp2 3y ago

You must live in a good climate. I mainly travel to avoid shitty climate.

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uoaei 3y ago

Spoken like someone with an overconfidence in their own judgments and an underappreciation of alternative worldviews.

MisterBastahrd 3y ago
If you're taking a trip for a week at a time somewhere, you are experiencing their tourism industry, not their culture. Experiencing culture requires you to remain in a place for a period of time, and you don't get that by visiting shops and bars. You get that by building relationships with people where they are.
- uoaei 3y ago
  Depends entirely how you approach it. You can build relationships that last a day and still learn a lot.

seer 3y ago

While that could be considered true, isn't it the same as saying "playing the satar" is a shitty surrogate hobby for people who are too afraid to travel and explore other cultures? A good hobby will positively affect one's live, be a source of personal pride and sense of accomplishment. You can be the guy who obsesses about metallurgy and makes the sharpest knifes in your basement. Consequently that gets you to brag about it to your referent group and make you feel a sense of joy, apart from the joy you feel when you do the crafting itself. Similar with traveling - immersing yourself in foreign cultures and trying to understand them is very much akin to endeavouring to learn a new programming language, or starting an open source project to test out some cool tech. With luck you'll get something tangible (photos and videos of trip / git repo with cool code), will have the memory of the joy you felt with the exploration and will have something to talk about with your referent group. Sure there are people who abuse traveling to make it for the status rather than for the joy, but isn't that true with everything? In the end, if it brought you joy, and you didn't harm anyone, it would could be worthwhile to you. And an old folk saying I've heard ones said "whatever you eat and drink nobody can take away from you". Its the experience that matter.

hijklmnopq 3y ago

We bow to your supreme art of traveling. Please share so us plebs know how to travel What a dumbass comment