The people who travel are totally different from the others. They are more open-minded.
Fascism is rising in Europe. Even Greece, a country historically known for its φιλοξενία (philoxenia), that is, hospitality, has become a nazi country towards strangers, offering much hostility instead of friendship, imprisonning strangers in concentration camps where they are starving and treated like shit. Why the hell would they be treated like this ? They are humans !
The thing is that Greeks don't travel. Proud of a beautiful, rich country, they get old without opening to the world and become nationalist, chauvinist arrogants, thinking the limits as restrained to Greece, forgetting that there is a WORLD outside ! It's difficult to travel out from our planet, but at least we should open our minds to get to know it at best.
Birth, death, going far... I think there's a relationship between that.
This article is a tribute to travellers. You widen horizons, discover wonderful things and take part of a universal culture, based on understanding, not xenophobia. Congratulations ! We need more people like you.
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