Around the world, people experience lock-down, or quarantine, or isolation. Even in some countries where lock-down is not forced, people choose to stay in. It is an unusual time for our period! The majority of us haven’t had experience of it before, neither in personal, nor on a collective level. It’s very new. It’s not …
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The COVID-19 crisis found me in the beautiful Pokhara of Nepal. I was enjoying the serene background, hiking up the cliffs and hills on weekends, planning when I would go to the jungle, while on weekdays I was starting at my new job with a local NGO and planning my activities there. In early March, …
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In the summer of 2019, I found myself exploring Bratislava as well as gambling. As I was wondering around the city, I came across a casino. I had never been in a casino before and so, I had to cross that out of my to do list. I got my casino card, I checked out …
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I tried to find the answer in research and I failed so far. I keep searching though. There is not much information out there, besides that travelers might prefer unknown routes to follow, so as they learn more1, or that people who travel often tend to have higher life-satisfaction2. For this reason, I would like …
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Empathy: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also: the capacity for this (Merriam-Webster Dictionary) For the purposes of multicultural psychology class …
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It’s become a cliché. Every long-term traveler should have heard at least once in their travel period the phrase “what are you running away from?” There are several variations of this same question. “What is it that you don’t like in (put your country/city of origin)?” “You watch too much cinema! You really think you …
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