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> The box known as your mind.

You know the quote "wherever you go, there you are?" At some put point, I started putting the emphasis on you rather than there. Sure, you can go see Paris, and it's a lovely city, but you're still you. Some people travel to "find themselves," but never do. It's still you.

>>dehrma+(OP)
Travel certainly changes people. But it depends on your openness to new ideas. Some travelers expect to find their own country in a different place - these people will not be altered by travel. However if you consider travel as an exercise in adaption to other peoples’ ways of life, then it certainly will challenge some of the axioms that were instilled in you from a young age by your society.

>>dehrma+(OP)
But there’s a multifaceted you there.

It’s pretty hard to reach your potential as a surf champion if you stay where you were born in Minnesota.

It’s pretty hard to become a social butterfly in a culture that disapproves of your sexual orientation.

It’s pretty hard to become a nuclear physicist if you only stay in the farm and study animal husbandry.

Nothing against animal husbandry or Minnesota

>>zarzav+c9
Why can't you find your country in a different one?because you are supposed to stay put and true to your country that luck decided for you and obey some societal rule?