Never forget that a topic can be presented at different lengths - and either in writing or orally (and then via video). For the past decade I have enjoyed watching Rick Steves’ Europe on Idaho Public TV. At The Spokesman-Review on November 11, 2018 there was an article of his titled 10 tips for travel as a political act. (It also appeared here at his web site). Those ten tips are:
Get out of your comfort zone.
Connect with people, and try to understand them.
Be a cultural chameleon.
Understand contemporary context.
Empathize with the other 96 percent of humanity.
Identify – and undermine – your own ethnocentricity.
Accept the legitimacy of other moralities.
Sightsee with an edge.
Make your trip an investment in a better world.
Make a broader perspective your favorite souvenir.
In 2011 at TEDx Rainer he gave a 21-minute talk on The value
of travel.
Earlier this year at YouTube there was a 1 hour and
13-minute lecture on Travel as a Political Act. Back in 2009 he published a
book with that title. On February 21, 2018 at NPR there was an article on the 3rd edition of that book about how Rick Steves gets uncomfortable in ‘Travel as
a Political Act.’
No comments:
Post a Comment