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"Traveling is good."
This should be the motto of the airlines in trouble, because it is absolutely true. Learn from some incredible things in the world, literally shoulder to shoulder with our neighbors and this baby Blue Planet of us.
I just got back from my first trip to Italy, and while I've been many times in England and France and some of our immediate neighbors like Canada and Mexico, have my eyes on this trip more of ANY of the first open.
Perhaps theimportant thing I've seen what appears to be the high standard of living there. People are well dressed, I noticed a lot more fashionable, like us, on average.
They look healthy, enjoying a sort of universal health coverage and easier access to health services.
Above all, spend significant amounts of it, that the vacation of their own shops and paternalism usually elegant restaurants, I saw on the road.
There are someOther things I noticed.
Most shopkeepers and restaurateurs are "clean freaks" clean up constantly since their opening until closing. Brooms are everywhere, cleaning the house, at 8: 30 am is inevitable, and was almost forced to leave your food products in a different way can be removed from your desktop.
The beaches are clean lines of salt are perfectly symmetrical, and each of the workers in the service seems to have a supervisor watching over him.
Compare to Las VegasHotel, where at least four times to clean the house and even called them, were not intended, and no one would be that day.
It seems that we in America emptying the realm of employee services so that they are an endangered species, while in Italy, for example, they are not only ubiquitous, they are effective, professional and happy to serve.
And they are paid living wages, it seems, then, after listening to conversations, appear in close proximity to live and beprovide the location, home.
As a proud American, I tried to find a way to take credit for Italy, and by extension for the well-being of Europe. How, I wondered, have contributed to their salvation?
Well, first, they did not have a big war in at least one fight, and depending on how you calculate two and a half or even two generations. Received a "peace dividend" that we do not after the end of the Cold War, which was planned but never builtmaterialized.
They have reduced barriers to trade among themselves, usually adopt a common currency, the euro, the rise and the dollar has obscured.
And perhaps most remarkable is the fact that his elderly are visible, providing healthy and well.
Instead of perceiving the "social security" as something you can fudge, the European company to help Actually her age, set their declining years committed to make a soft landing, if you will.
My trip wasFun, you misunderstood me.
But it is also disturbing. The bedrock belief that we are better in America was shocked, really for the first time
I like lower taxes, better opportunities for social and economic progress, and large and I am an individualist.
If I had to live abroad, I miss McDonald's, perhaps too much, or the fact that in most American cities you can find a decent meal and the rerouting of 24 hours per day.
But I envy their social pact, a commitment totakes care of all citizens and their sense of ease and comfort, the absence of fretting corrosion on the face of so many mothers and fathers, as they tend to what appears to be a proliferation of children.
And in mind when I hear the question: "Why Americans do not seem so much contempt?" we the people who freed them from fascism and communism, I began to feel a weak response.
Perhaps because they enjoy peace, prosperity and hope, andThe fear that the very country that helped to deliver these benefits could, at the edge of the path of them are from adventurism or worse, by impulsivity.
I hope not.
All I know is that I need to get out more often, to see how people really live the fiction and propaganda out of my head is empty.
I do not know if it will help me to become a citizen of the world, but it can make me a better American.
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