Reasons to Travel
Recently, I've been getting kind of sick of America. I don't mean so much my home, where I go to school, or the president, but just--some of the things that people do to each other, how people treat each other in daily life, and the dominant culture that beats people down and forces them into little boxes, to the point where people can either accept something as funny or get laughed at as oversensitive, it grates on me. The ever-dominant rape culture that makes a criminal out of a woman who was raped at age 13 and makes her rapist a martyr; how women are objectified to the point where the closest metaphor a man can make towards being raped is getting mugged, and a place where some people just don't THINK before they speak, not caring who they hurt or what the consequences are as long as THEIR needs are satisfied above all others--it's harrowing, distressing, and uncomfortable.
I've been thinking of traveling abroad for a while now, but now with the stupid unit cap restriction set in place, I don't think I'm going to be able to--at least, if I go to school in another country, it will have to be through a graduate program, meaning that I won't be able to study outside of the country until I have graduated and entered the business market. There is an immense sense of regret and loss at seeing my chances of a new experience taken from me by budget cuts and a bleeding economy.
So something like this both uplifts me and motivates me to look for some other way to experience studying abroad.
I've been thinking of traveling abroad for a while now, but now with the stupid unit cap restriction set in place, I don't think I'm going to be able to--at least, if I go to school in another country, it will have to be through a graduate program, meaning that I won't be able to study outside of the country until I have graduated and entered the business market. There is an immense sense of regret and loss at seeing my chances of a new experience taken from me by budget cuts and a bleeding economy.
So something like this both uplifts me and motivates me to look for some other way to experience studying abroad.
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