How Travel Reduces Fear and Encourages Understanding

 

Introduction 

International travel has probably never been as crucial as it is today. While in the world where main headlines inform about serious and at times dreadful events combined with rapid sharing of various fears, travelling helps to fight prejudices and rumours. People often develop their perceptions from distant places from news or stories they hear or read, but through travelling, people can get the real picture.

Travel Breaks Down Fear

When people do not travel, they fear the unknown. Very often such fear relates to actual events that are either inflated or reported misleadingly. It's halfway through the movie when the protagonist is out on his journey and without a doubt the world is not as bad as some people make it seem. In any case, travelling makes people less prejudiced and less afraid of the Other. Their concept about the world is developed without inclining towards media or any other source of information.

Travel Builds Connections

Travelling teaches people that despite the cultural, geographical and linguistic differences, people of the world have the same aspirations. Freedom, culture and language do not matter that much since humans want the same things including family, peace and better living. In our case, this realisation helps in enhancing sympathy and means that tourists are able to understand the cultures of the host societies. The higher level of increased mobility of people makes it impossible to feel the strangers around or have an attitude of considering everyone an enemy. Whereas technology often cements the idea that people are divided by borders, travel brings unity.

Travel Offers New Perspectives

Foreign journeys disrupt cognitive sets, therefore teach better ways of perceiving reality. Whenever people overcome their limitations they gain a new perspective in the way they perceive things. In doing so they get the licence to doubt and seek out the truths about the human condition. Journeying is not simply a mode of still being inside different places but it is also a process of becoming and being developed. There is the chance to learn more and also be in a position to make the society a better place.

Travel Promotes Understanding

So even though travelling doesn’t turn an individual into a better person it does provide the weapons against all hatred and fear. It helps individuals examine the information they are given carefully as well as go out and live through the things they learn about. If you would like something more modern, here is an Ernest Hemingway quote: “The only way to quiet your mind is to open your heart. Travel.” Even today this statement holds a lot of truth. When people commute as well as interact with other people, the world becomes a more accepting and tolerant place.

The Bottom Line 

Travel is a powerful way to break down barriers, challenge fears, and foster global connections. 

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