New and exciting places, always makes me appreciate home. But traveling gave me a new insight into how the world functions, and how different people interact differently with each other around the world. Being stuck in the American bubble can keep us unaware, and unconscious of the peoples and lives different to our own.
This was my first time in Europe, my first time in different countries where I didn't understand the language or social cues. I became jealous of the social network that I was experiencing in their society where family, and friendship is number one. America is known as a place to grow yourself; where capitalism is applauded, and individualism is accepted. We coined the terms "me time", and "self help", and our self involved culture, and advertising reflects that. I experienced spending real time with my classmates, with no intrest of my personal gain, like in a University classroom, I found that being out of America makes you self aware. Aware of others, the way they act and treat eachother. One interesting thing I noticed in my time in Europe were homeless people, and how they acted differently from the american homeless population. They would bow on the ground, heads down, hands up, and humbly wait for people to pity them. While in Los Angeles our homeless population is seen as rowdy and scary, a burden to society. They beg at the entrances of highways, come up to your car, they try and scam us, instead of letting us pity them. While homelesness is a problem all over the world, the way I interacted with them in Spain was so much safer, and I would be more inclined to give them food or money. It caused me to be more attracted to people who are not as self centered, and that love and family is more important then capitolism and fame. i.
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