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Originally Posted by Bobo Fett
Um, Bryce, the fact that you think being in lots of places in the US and Canada makes you more cosmopolitan than people who have been to multiple countries kind of demonstrates the opposite. You think it makes you cosmopolitan only because you haven't been anywhere that would make you so. And that's not meant to insult you or anyone else who hasn't travelled outside of NA - not everyone has the interest and/or the means, and there's nothing wrong with that. Many awesome things to see and do right here - hell, if one digs deep there's likely more than enough to explore within a few hundred miles of us to last a lifetime. I'm hoping to achieve more breadth in my travels, but of course that comes at the expense of depth. Whether one is better than the other, I'm not here to judge.
Nuance is important. First off, Canada and USA
are multiple countries.
I wouldn’t say I’m the most cosmopolitan person, just that I am one. I haven’t been to many foreign countries primarily because I was Harry Pottered in painful fashion as a young adult , but if you add my closest relatives the number of countries jumps from 2 to well over a 100. RR did that so I can too.
I would argue New York City is the most cosmopolitan city in the world.
Having said that, you’re right, but not to a degree that warrants casual dismissiveness. There is a reason I said 6-7 and not 20. I know barbarians who live in Kansas and have been to Mexico once and also a cruise in their 40s once where they stepped foot on a couple of island nations in the Caribbean. Are they automatically more enlightened or traveled than I because technically they stepped foot in 5 countries? I think not. .