One of my favorite things about traveling is getting to experience a different culture and a different way of living, but inevitably what comes with that is comparing it to your own way of living and judging whether it is better or worse instead of just appreciating it for what it is. However, there are some things or ways of doing things that are just better in certain countries. For example, chocolate. Why can't America take a page from any European country's book and learn to make really good chocolate or for me specifically, chocolate croissants? First, you can hardly even find chocolate croissants in Utah, and second they in no way compare to those I have had in various European countries.
But here's one for America. Hair dryers (blow dryers). The technology exists. It's not like Greece needs to invent anything from scratch. So why do they have these strange tube things that don't actually blow any air, but do make your hand really hot?
In Japan, they have excellent Subway systems. There is a marked spot on the pavement to show where the doors will open. People line up by these marks in two lines, then separate the lines to make an opening when the train arrives so people getting off can easily exit. They then proceed onto the train in an orderly fashion. Why can't we do that here?
So here is what I have decided. There needs to be some way to share these kinds of things across borders. For example, we could form an international committee of average travelers and ask them what they like and don't like about their own country and other countries and then find a way of marketing these things so we can all enjoy the best the world has to offer.
I'm not talking about changing people's cultures here, just the little conveniences that make life easier or more enjoyable.
Yeah, sometimes my ideas are pretty brilliant.
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