traveling
In this TEDx talk I adress how anthropology (or social anthropology) can teach us how to travel and through this understand other cultures. This is in comparison to the standard ways of traveling, specifically mass tourism.
Why do we travel for recreation? Do we travel _to_ something? Or do we travel to get _away_ from something? We all want to be travelers, but we are in reality tourists.
International traveling means leaving one culture in order immerse oneself in another one. Human cultures ar variations on the endless cultural and environmental adaptations that homo sapiens has evolved into.
Photos posted on Facebook from events back in October 2016 spawned some introspection about living in two countries while at the same traveling the world. What many take to be an enviable life has some drawbacks that the house cat does not have.
