I feel like this is an article that tells me more about the author’s mind than it does about the thesis topic.
The introductory concept—that people who travel treat it as a virtue—rings false immediately to me. Everyone I know, myself included, treats leisure travel as a luxury to be enjoyed, not a virtuous activity to be lorded over others. Most people I know do roughly the same thing in travel destinations as they do at home, whether that’s museums, hiking, golfing, or sight-seeing.
Ultimately, the whole argument seems to be that “travel doesn’t improve you as a person the way you think it does” which is not an argument against traveling so much as an argument against inaccurate self-perception.
I feel like this is an article that tells me more about the author’s mind than it does about the thesis topic.
The introductory concept—that people who travel treat it as a virtue—rings false immediately to me. Everyone I know, myself included, treats leisure travel as a luxury to be enjoyed, not a virtuous activity to be lorded over others. Most people I know do roughly the same thing in travel destinations as they do at home, whether that’s museums, hiking, golfing, or sight-seeing.
Ultimately, the whole argument seems to be that “travel doesn’t improve you as a person the way you think it does” which is not an argument against traveling so much as an argument against inaccurate self-perception.