{"id":853,"date":"2022-11-02T08:54:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T15:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=853"},"modified":"2022-11-02T08:55:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T15:55:55","slug":"mark-twain-on-the-importance-of-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2022\/11\/02\/mark-twain-on-the-importance-of-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Twain on the importance of travel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mark Twain in <em>The Innocents Abroad<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201c<strong>Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men<\/strong> <strong>and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one&#8217;s lifetime<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Studies show that those who have traveled internationally are more receptive to immigrants. This is one of many factors that can explain differing perspectives on immigration into the U.S. Those that have traveled extensively are more likely to support immigration versus those who have not traveled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other factors may include the year of birth for reasons I explain in a Demographics post on my other blog: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-coldstreams wp-block-embed-coldstreams\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"OBBELaZxMb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/2022\/10\/21\/demographics-why-boomers-and-millennials-view-immigration-differently\/\">Demographics: Why &#8220;Boomers&#8221; and &#8220;Millennials&#8221; view immigration differently<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Demographics: Why &#8220;Boomers&#8221; and &#8220;Millennials&#8221; view immigration differently&#8221; &#8212; Coldstreams\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/2022\/10\/21\/demographics-why-boomers-and-millennials-view-immigration-differently\/embed\/#?secret=XD1Bu5M3mm#?secret=OBBELaZxMb\" data-secret=\"OBBELaZxMb\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Twain in The Innocents Abroad: \u201cTravel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-background","category-government-regulatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}