What was your deepest realization when you started traveling? What did it teach you?
What was your deepest realization when you started traveling? What did it teach you?
What was your deepest realization when you started traveling? What did it teach you?
Unironically nothing.
I started travelling properly 15 years ago I'm mid 30s now and when I did I was expecting some huge epiphanies or life realisations. The real one that I got is that I should stop trying so hard because those are a bit of a meme. I now just travel because I realised I genuinely like it, I like trying new foods and seeing places that are as far from what I'd see and experience at home as possible.
tl:dr if your want a deep experience do psychedelics
Pretty much this, I'm sure I've done and seen stuff that would cause some types to go off on some pseudo-philosophical tripe
but at the end of the day all I've learned is that I just like travelling. Also that white Americans are the most annoying people on Earth.
>white Americans are the most annoying people on Earth.
In what way are they worse than Europeans in your view? From my perspective they are more ‘fake’ with the fake ‘how are youuuuu’, kick their kids out at 18yo, dont care about families only individualism.
I havent had a indept conversation with an American irl so I can’t really judge them well yet.
>From my perspective they are more ‘fake’ with the fake ‘how are youuuuu
Sometimes it's fake, but sometimes it's just because American culture has a strong evangelical streak. Not only do they think of themselves as good Christians they may also want to convert you. If you're really unluckt you'll encounter a Mormon.
Have you ever been to DPRK, Iran or Afghanistan? I want to visit obscure places like isolated dictatorships. Could be really fun
Can't say I've visited any of these places but going to my original point it seems very try hard. If you're being honest with yourself 95% of the reason you want to go to these obscure places is to say you've been there or to tell other people so, I got over that a long time ago and don't do that anymore, I now just travel to places I want that will be interesting.
>tl:dr if your want a deep experience do psychedelics
How would someone living in a prude country get around to doing this? Amsterdam? Anything I should know beforehand?
Buying online or making friends at the right parties are also options.
Magic truffles tend to be weaker on a per gramm basis. You can read all you want about psychedelics, but the experience is hard to put in words.
Most important are set and setting. Make yourself comfortable.
>What was your deepest realization when you started traveling?
White Anglos are passive aggressive, neurotic, WEIRD (not in a good way) people. People on 4chin hate Australian and Canadian posters for very real reasons. The most fucked up, toxic retards you'll hang around are Australian and Canadian, especially if they're white.
Has it ever occured to you that they HATE you for being a poojeet, knowing you are only there as a parasite to drive down wages and inflate costs of living, a low IQ brown slave caste smart enough to do skilled labour but too stupid and slave like to ask pertinent questions
Nah m8 I can vouch for two Australian SighSeeners I met they were total bros. I also knew a few British anons online. Never met American SighSeeners though
Maybe stop being a non-white in our countries and return home?
Not that anon, but picrel.
American too. I haven't had much travelling, but I don't need much of it to agree. Americans are the only nationality who think that skin color is a 1:1 tie in to national origin. Try telling them you're black and British, for example.
>"OMG W-W-W-WOW ANON! HOW CAN YOUR SKIN BE BLACK IF YOU'RE FROM BRITAIN!?!?!/111"
It's why I think America needs serious conflicts every ten years. The people get too complacent, then their brains begin to melt.
>Americans are the only nationality who think that skin color is a 1:1 tie in to national origin.
Have you ever talked to Europeans?
>Try telling them you're black and British, for example.
This is not possible. You cant be African and British. You have a British passport but you will never be an Englishman or Brit. I’m more British than any Black in Britain due to my Saxon heritage
>This is not possible.
You better get used to it. In the future, most Britons will be of African or Indian/Pakistani extraction. Even the royal family eventually will marry Africans and become Black and Muslim.
M8 I know about white genocide. Just saying that they will never become English or British. They will always be the descendants of slave with no knowledge about their actual homelands, culture or ancestors because their cousins sold them.
>This is not possible.
Actually, you colossal brain-dead /misc/homosexual, it IS possible. I didn't say anything about being English or ANGLO, you inbred loon, I said BRITISH. Of course someone from Pakistan or Africa won't be ethnically Anglo--those aren't Anglophonic people, you fucking idiot. However, Britain has right-of-soil citizenship, making any non-whites born on its soil, of British NATIONALITY.
I understand you're a colossal fuckhead who can't grasp baby's first anthropologic concepts, but when you hit 6th grade and your balls drop, you'll see that you've learned something today.
I HIGHLY doubt the royals will play ball in that realm. Prince what's-his-fuck is a one-off and he absconded his royal duties. Remember, they killed Diana for messing with that Arab boy in the 90s and Arabs are generally favoured over blacks. Megan gets a pass because she's a woman. Let them bring a black man up in the castle. Watch how quickly it becomes the Two-Thousand Years War.
Nationality and ethnicity is the same thing, if yours are mismatched you’ll never belong
>2
>"n-no anon! ethnicity and nationality are the same!!!1"
>dumbass seems to forget that america exists
Besides immigrants, how do you explain ethnic groups that have historically belonged to different nations or ethnic groups that are spread across multiple nations? What about ethnic nomadic groups?
>Maybe stop being a non-white in our countries
The land belongs to the native Indians you anglo scum bag. How about you fags stop colonizing and stealing land ... go back to Europe.
Aussies are alright.
Canadians are cunt scum, I know because I'm stuck here,
A significant part if not the majority of the anglosphere is like this. That is what i learned from travelling. Outside the anglosphere almost nobody is afflicted with our toxic woke bullshit politicla nonsense that is destroying the west at a pace that's hard to believe.
Sometimes I have nightmares that I'm stuck back in Australia paying fifty percent taxes with distant memories of fucking a landwhale mentally ill wife before being divorce raped for cash and prizes and having my kids used as weapons against me in the drawn out acrimonious legal proceedings.
Then I wake up and thank whatever passes in this universe for god that I'm in Thailand with a naked twentysomething saying good morning with her mouth full in the most pleasant way imaginable.
Pretty fair description of lefty chicks in the inner north of Melbourne. Good for you, living the dream!
As much as I love your accents y'all women are way out of their lane. They're just . . . I don't know. Problems. I'll mess with them but it won't go farther than that. God the accent is so hot.
I've never met a bad Aussie. I'm Canadian though, and one thing I'll say is that I never ran into a good Canadian while travelling. They're all ignorant assholes. I love Canadians in Canada, but goddamn, when you take them out of the country and put them somewhere foreign, they're completely insufferable. I was the same way when I started travelling too -- just young and dumb.
For me, the absolute worst white people are American women. Bloody hell.
White American men are bro tier, I know some latina mutt women who are very nice in general, but white women are horrid. Entitled as fuck.
My worst experience was a Afrikanner SIMP who tried fighting me for bring critial of Thai drivers
This but unironically. I fucking hate Aussies so much. Most disrespectful idiots on earth. Easy women though.
The most flakey and scummy people I've ever met traveling have been Aussies. Like "I'll get the next round if you get this one mate" then disappear or get everyone kicked out of the bar kind of people.
>White Anglos are passive aggressive, neurotic, WEIRD (not in a good way) people.
Couldn't agree more!
The worst are those gay predators from either London or San Francisco who stare at your ass in airports.
The eternal anglo is the cancer of the world.
I will never have sex.
Its ok its all just hype anyways
The angloshere are the worst countries with the worst people and the worst food (aside from America which has the best food in the world)
>What was your deepest realization when you started traveling?
- That I wasted years of my life learning other languages when I should have just focused on English.
- Brown people are easy to control because they seethe or simper, depending on whether you bruise or stroke their ego.
- Women all over the world are both similar (they eventually get annoying) but also different (they get annoying in different ways).
- The key to contentment is having women in different countries and cities that you can flip between to avoid being bored.
>Women all over the world are both similar (they eventually get annoying) but also different (they get annoying in different ways).
So true! Same for men tbh
>The key to contentment is having women in different countries and cities that you can flip between to avoid being bored.
True I kind of have this rn for Budapest, Istanbul and Seoul although Seoul is harder for me to reach. I do want a normal marriage with children one day though.
That i should hoard money in a rich country and then geo-arbitrage in a developing country and live like a king
That being born in a post-commie shithole is still a massive step up from the third world on the life lottery ladder.
Also this
Also at least Eastern Europeans will still exist in a 100 years. Better a poor people than no people. Plus you are growing economically now
Didn't really have any profound realizations, but traveling definitely helped me develop.
I've been using SighSee since about 2012 and took my first-ever overseas trip in 2013. I was, at the time, a reasonably attractive but incredibly awkward, borderline autistic sperg. I had no social confidence, was intimidated by women, and could barely hold a conversation with other men. Looking back, I don't think I had any hobbies outside of reading books and playing video games. I was, overall, a very boring, sterile person.
Everything started changing after my first trip, which took me to:
>Turkey
>Greece
>Iraq
>Georgia
>Armenia
>the UAE
>India
>Kazakhstan
Since I often had to interact with people in completely different languages, I quickly shed my fear of social rejection. I also drank for the first time, had my first few hook-ups, and got involved in what turned out to be a very, very bad long-distance relationship.
I kept traveling after that and have been to somewhere between 50-60 countries. Traveling exposed me to a lot of new interests: I learned to speak two languages--Hindi to fluency, and Turkish to the B2 level--started riding motorcycles, and came up with a dissertation topic for my doctorate.
No idea how I'd have turned out if I wasn't a SighSeetard, but I'm pretty happy with my present life.
You sound white. Or a Canadian poojeet
I see the same happening with me. I'm pretty confident and successful with women, but two months into my year long backpacking trip I see how much more open I'm getting. I'd never chat to a stranger before except for picking up women drunk.
SighSee improved your life, congrats brother. That’s dedication.
Cool story, but those are like the two worst languages
How old are you know? Your path is similar to what I'd like to accomplish at some point.
I'm in my late 20s/early 30s.
>learned two unnecessary shitskin languages
I'm sorry.
Live outside of Canada / America is much better. You are a wage slave in America. In the other parts of the world there is a sense of national identity and community. In America its about being a nagger lover and a fan of some bipartisan party.
Burger delusions.
That not everything is black and white. I went to iran like a /misc/cel expecting isis tier people and they were the kindest people there I have ever met
Same for me in Turkey. How did you reach Iran. I heard its kind of difficult I should do some research.
Most people are nice
Most people are also morons
There's fucked up people everywhere, but there are also people who will treat you well unlike your own family. The worst I was ever treated was by them, fucking horrible monsters, but it prepared me to face strangers because nothing they could say or do would ever come close to the hurt and betrayal of your own blood despising you.
Also that there's a lot of food I never tried and I missed out until I finally got the taste. I was 20 before I ever tried fried chicken, curry, ramen, anything Hispanicy, borscht, fried noodles, kimbap, all this delicious food. Eating Hispanicy food was brutal in the beginning, tears of pain, and now it's nothing.
Race realism
And I'm not even a butthurt /misc/ack, I love spending time in developing countries with the locals. It's just a fundamental truth of life.
That I am nothing, I mean nothing to this world, and it's perfectly fine, it's even better that way.
Also this
I love cultural diversity and I want each culture to stay the way they are, so I don't want to see each culture settling elsewhere, and mixing with other cultures, becoming some sort of cultural goo.
This. I admire Hitler for respecting other races without having traveled outside of Europe. Impressive
>race realism unironcially
>sucks hitler off
>"omg look at this totally-accurate normie insta-post about what he said guys!"
its better to be expat in a third world than one of hundred million tax cattle in a first world country. you will actually have things in common with your fellow whites rather than being trapped in a game of existential musical chairs where your fellow citizen is nothing but competition
racism is right.
Unironically that there isn't a single grain of truth or wisdom in religions. Having an Indonesian tell me I need to buy a sarong to cover my knees so I don't offend *fucking god* was difficult to keep a straight face.
I also learn to never trust anyone that isn't European or American.
Fuck the Brits, Aussies and Canadians.
I forgot the Australians exist. Bongs are fine depending on what part of the world. You're encountering them in.
Why?
Traveling helped me develop a life philosophy based around the fact that life sucks everywhere as much as it can be good.
Living anywhere will always have pluses and minuses and the sum of both will, as a rule, tend towards zero. It's all up to how you subjectively weight these factors.
I've lived in and interacted with people, both locals and expats in many places from 1st to 3rd world and everywhere follows the same rule. Numbers such as GDP per capita or HDI do play a role in how "livable" a place is, but there's plenty of invisible things, including culture, language, mentality that will make or break it for one person or the other.
Living abroad is exaggeratedly romanticised as much as sticking to your home country due to some misplaced patriotism is. I have grown to live without attachments to a particular place, just being able to objectively embrace and enjoy/suffer all the highs and lows each particular place has to offer.
There is a cohort of travellers who are filthy rich and also retarded
> fly first class
> stay in suites at brand name hotel chains
> rely on guided tours for everything
> ripped off for a stage managed instagrammable experience
> think getting the bus or a train from the airport to the city centre is unbelievably complex and dangerous
They’ve been to fifty countries but also not really
There is nothing more that repulses me than going to a new country and seeing buses packed full of idiots on guided tours. What a boring ass way to explore an entirely new country/city. The ultimate normie move.
aren't those buses mostly filled with chinese boomers who don't know a lick of english, use traveling abroad as a dickwaving contest vs their fellow poorer countrymen rather than as a means to explore or learn something new, can't really be assed to plan for shit so they just leave the itinerary for the tour guide to figure out, and most of all would unironically be extremely helpless if left to their own devices without a babysitter in a foreign country?
you know, the kind that end ups as funny headlines for local papers such as "chinese tourist gets separated from group and dies after falling down a manhole"
There’s a beach in Iceland “reynisfjara”. Black volcanic sand, towering cliffs, raging Atlantic, all that. Lots of Chinese tourists have drowned there as they don’t like respecting the multilingual warnings and get caught out by Neptune.
Somehow got talking to an Icelander about his Blind Guardian shirt. Mention I was there and visited the beach. “Many stupid Chinese die there. We call it the Chinese takeaway”
>Many stupid Chinese die there. We call it the Chinese takeaway
Kek
Yeah and they come to Europe mostly for shopping. Chinese people are highly competitive and they often use luxury goods to show off how successful they are, even if they are middle class or poor.
However, my European inlaws exclusively do guided tours as well, even in their own country for some reason. They do not want to do research and everything is provided to them. It’s just an easy and lazy way to travel.
Americans or English speakers don't realize that the world is tailored to them. They can go anywhere and not have to worry about language problems.
One day when English is no longer the international lingua franca you'll see their fat asses on all-included guided tours as well. Just like they do cruise ships now in the caribbean.
I hate those people and group tours so much
i hate india and indian people
that I can achieve genuine happiness through travel because I find meaning in novelty. I hate living a regular day to day life so much i want to kms but for now I am stuck
That all cities are the same. Filthy horrible places meant to grind humans to dust in exchange for their economic labor. I’ve never seen a single city that wasn’t repulsive. I only travel to see rural regions now. Geology and biology, nature. I don’t pay money to see more people.
the farther away from my family, the happier and more confident i am
How much I admire religioj, specifically christianity which inspired great men to do great things like building St. Peter Bassilica and The Hagia Sophia.
American here. First time I traveled to South America is when I realized just how fat and disgusting Americans really are. The women i saw there were so incredibly beautiful, and they were all so friendly and nice to me too. I speak Spanish so I was able to talk to them and it really opened my eyes to just how shitty Americans really are. The funny part was they all dreamed of going to America and they all seemed so sad when I told them how bad things are here
Not teach but made me feel weird seeing how routine things could be different and also seeing places where most pwople didnt look like me. Those are weird feelings.
>What was your deepest realization when you started traveling?
>All places are the same due globalisation
>They only smell different
>100% local goods are better from a company that imports them in your origin country
>What was your deepest realization when you started traveling?
The US wasn't as good and perfect as people believe.
I'm not actually in incel.
Black people really are shit.
>I'm not actually in incel.
>Black people really are shit.
Only -one- can be picked, anon. Incels tend to think that way, so I'll call cap.
It taught me that there was a good reason women and men were kept in their traditional roles in cultures all over the world
The women understood why it worked and were happy to care for the household and raise the children. Think about it deeper before u get all mad like a child and tell me I am a meanie!
1. That traveling primarily for tourism leads to major disappointment & boredom. I truly believe you should have a primary reason for travel (business, fieldwork, volunteering, language immersion, education, friends/family, cooming, photojournalism, etc.) and the tooorism part should come secondary. It's more fun when the expectations are lower.
2. As a friendless introvert, traveling alone actually isn't always *that* great. The most tragic thing is that I've had my best experiences when I've travelled with annoying, headstrong, immature people who get you into the craziest situations that I otherwise would be uncharismatic & cautious to get into, and I have wild stories to tell back home and write about. Isn't that what it's all about? Let's be honest.
3. Americanized ethnic food is always superior. I've sought the most authentic places in Italy, Mexico, France, China, and so on, and it's always mid. Sorry but it's just the truth. Yes we put a lot of crap in it, but the taste is undeniably better. Those food tour travel vloggers are being facetious and clickbaity when they rave about local foods.
4. With that said, America has its problems, but I am always relieved to be back home. Even after staying in the nicest towns in Europe. This country was designed for comfort/convenience over aesthetics/culture. There are only a few places that aren't cookie cutter outlet malls. Sometimes I wish to have my air conditioning, elbow room, ice, etc.
>mid
have a nice day, but after you read my reply to 3
I agree with you. watching mark weins praise the same fucking food I've tried at the same establishment, I knew that fucker was full of shit. I don't think food vloggers ever say anything bad about the food they try.
i agree. don't forget to dilate today though.
That life is boring and not worth living unless you’ve dedicated your life to some exogenous source of fulfillment like a family or a hobby or acts of service. And those things are all cope. While traveling I can appreciate simple existence. Spending an hour locating and navigating to a shitty laundromat in the dodgy part of a town is infinitely better than walking to the laundry room of your air conditioned house. Also most travelers are homosexuals and I’m one of if not the only person who does it for the right reasons
nothing
People are the same everywhere.
I've been to over 20 countries.
"Did you see that new Netflix series?"
Ugh, please get me off this planet.
That I only like travel because I like anonymity and if I'm in a foreign place I know no-one and therefore can just act how I want.
That also, race realism is a fact.
Do foreigners in the UK actually believe that they are British?
I knew a black American that lived in the UK for a few years and had a terribly fake accent going. she thought she was British.
That you can't run away from your problems, you carry them wherever you go.
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Interesting. Do go on. I hear this often and would like to get your take on it.
israelites are white. Don't seethe.
That asian women are just better than western ones
I will stop traveling next year, I don't think I feel the need to travel anymore.
Travelling is a waste of time and money.
>YOUR white leaders
Yeah, "white", that's what they're called.
I wasn't really racist until I travelled tbh. Some cultures are irredeemable.
As for the good, it taught me that no matter the difficulty of the situation I'm in, I can always get through it.
The best and most interesting countries/cities/experienced are usually the ones you don't see on postcards, and not the ones you plan. The best experiences are usually random encounters/memories that stem from chance.
The most important thing to try in travel is food/local alcohol.
For me, travel isn't about deep realizations. It's about enjoying yourself in the moment, learning some new history or particularities about a country or culture, and having new experiences. All of the "waow so deep" travel realizations I hear people come up with are often shallow anyway
Actually no, the one deep realization I had is that some people in the world just have it worse off than others, to a massive degree, and there's no escape for them, or any justice or fairness. Not exactly deep -- it's the sort of thing everyone is *aware* of, but it hits different when you see a tiny Indonesian man carrying 40lbs of sulphur rocks across his back in a shoddy wooden basket, up and down a steep mountain all day long that you could barely climb *without* any extra weight on your back, coughing and hacking through a piece of cloth he uses as a mask while sulphurous smoke enters his lungs and stings his throat and eyes -- and he does it all for only a few dollars a day. It's one thing to see it and read about it in a book, but it's something entirely different to actually go through something comparable (albeit on a MUCH less intensive scale over a MUCH shorter time scale) and know that these guys have to live this reality all day, every day.
It's all one big ghetto
I used to very much think all humans are equal and we (germans) are super privileged and should share our wealth with less fortunate people by letting them come here.
After having travelled to 65+ countries i think poor countries are poor because people from poor countries are prone to cutting corners, lying, cheating, being lazy, having no discipline, and cannot control their emotions. My culture is unironically superior to most others which created one of the best countries in the world and we should build an ethnostate without any single non-german allowed in.
So, in short, travelling has made me very racist.
I’m half German can I come bro
Being racist keeps me safe.
Yeh but you guys are also super autistic and depressed people
Das rite, that's how we like it
Memories are only memories when spent with other people. Travelling alone can be interesting but in the end it will leave you empty with no noticeable memories to show for it
>Memories are only memories when spent with other people.
That's a retarded take. You can travel with someone and then you don't talk to them anymore and you can't reminisce with them and/or it becomes a bad memory.
Nothing deep or insightful, because I’m a chimp, but it made me realize how beautiful, hot, or cute women are everywhere. Attractive women are a dime-a-dozen. For backgrounds, I’m from a small town from the Midwest. Midwestern high school and college experience. Part of growing up as a boy is having a crush on that cute girl in the front of the class, or that cheerleader, or that big tiddy goth girl. For the average guy, that crush serves as a benchmark for their dating preferences. It’s like a goal many of us strive for, right? Many of us never get over those crushes, still feeling the pangs of desire after all those years. I was one of those geeds.
But then I started traveling and then I started noticing all these knockout women in different places. Soon enough, I forgot about the “Stacy” cheerleader from my Kansas highschool. Hotter women were all over South Miami Beach, or in Medellin, or in Rio. That cute girl in my local college? Forgot about her when I met all these much cuter girls in my study abroad in Italy. That big tiddy goth girl? Forgot about her too, when I checked out the Berlin techno scene. Attractive girls are literally fucking everywhere. For fucks sake, a lot of attractive women can be had as escorts if you have the money. There’s nothing special about baddies, or thots, or the cute girl that works at your independent coffee shop because there’s literally millions of other girls out there that fit the bill.
Tldr: I talk like a fag, like Tate. Also there’s hot girls everywhere so get over it
I didn't really have any realisations the first time I went travelling, I just enjoy being immersed in other people's cultures and trying new things.
I've just started on my second trip 5 years after the first and I realised I really enjoyed it last time because back home I had no friends and women wouldn't touch me with a ten foot pole whereas now I have more of an established circle and a woman back home.
But it's early days, the first fortnight is always toughest, once I get into the swing of it I should be fine
>What was your deepest realization when you started traveling?
There's people who still live in the equivalent of the middle ages
>What did it teach you?
There's no place like home.
Nothing, that it's just tourism and people are the same every where
Americans are actually pretty sharp