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bigdaddysaints said

so many people are so gung ho USA! USA!. they are blinded to believe we are the best country in the world. but they have never been anywhere else. they were just born here and know nothing else.
how do you know your mom's gumbo is the best when it's the only gumbo you've ever eaten?

it's not easy to pick up and go somewhere else. it's hard. to leave family and friends..
but if i had the opportunity, i would move to Canada or somewhere like that in a heat beat..

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You're assuming that there must be so many people in this country who haven't visited other countries and experienced other cultures, societies and that's an unfair generalization. This isn't the early 20th century where tourism was confined to the wealthy, privileged and affluent visited other countries. How many millions of Americans actually visit other countries on a yearly basis? How many hundreds of thousands of Americans do you think will be visiting other countries in Latin America, Canada, or Europe over the next month over the Christmas holidays? It's very ignorant and misleading to actually argue most Americans haven't traveled or visited other countries and been exposed to other cultures, societies to some extent or another.

The more complex truth is that some Americans compartmentalize what they see, experience and interact with when they visit other countries, regions, or continents and the people they meet but they visit their as tourists, and there viewed as such. They don't live there, at the end of the day, they still have to return home to where they live because like you said, it's hard and often very expensive to pick up and relocate to some city like Toronto or Montreal unless you have some nice job you're being relocated to waiting for you.