Also, experience with difference (different cultures etc.) can be made closer to home, too. E.g. when I was sixteen I spent a summer with a Turkish family in Turkey. Definitely an experience of the sort you're talking about, yet - with a bit of proper organisation - completely achievable without flying. (We did fly, back then, but that was seventeen years ago and I wasn't as conscious of the problems with flying as I am now.)
And I don't think that people need to have those kinds of experience very often; a few experiences like that are probably enough to open the average person's mind.
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Re: Family across the pond
Date: 2009-08-28 11:07 pm (UTC)And I don't think that people need to have those kinds of experience very often; a few experiences like that are probably enough to open the average person's mind.