To put it plainly, you need to get out some more. Travel is a fantastic way to get to see more of the world and understand it better. A book can be biased and the internet iffy. News is really largely a bunch of crap. If you get a tug on an issue you see on the news from some far flung place, make a point to get the take on the local media's perspective on the matter. I did that a bit and see the world in a brand new way.
I have seen alot of travel blogs. Pictures of teen age white girls dressed in Massai attire with bewildering smiles splashed all over there "I was made to grin" faces. don't be scared. The world doesn't want to rape you a shade of blue. They just want your tourist money. As you do theirs when they come over to your place.
Grab your digital camera, give your credit card a good shine, buy some darts, stick a map on your door get blindfolded and shoot away! (water bodies don't count, as well as war torn dictator run, places and countries where the US army is presently "engaging the enemy.
Get on out there and hang with the locals. Dont sit in an all white 5 star hotel and move around with a guide and claim to have met and understood the locals. Its good for you. Am going to what must truely be the hardest place in the world to get to from where I am: the Vietnam!
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