Spaces and Exchanges - To What Extent is Leaving One's Country an Enriching Experience?

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[...] One of the advantages of travelling is having the opportunity to experience other cultures, convictions values and different ways of living. Indeed, there is an educational side to traveling. It widens our perspective of the world so we don't think all corners of the land are the same and, in the same way, we can learn the history and background of cultures and geographical areas. For instance, in an extract of a video entitled "Dublin's Literary Life", Rick Steves, a television personality focused on European trips, presents some well-knows Dubliners writers of the 20th century, such as Oscar Wilde and James Joyce. [...]

[...] Cultural Exchanges Moreover, we must not forget that leaving our country can open up our mind and contribute to help us becoming more flexible, creative and sociable. Indeed, another advantage of travelling to new places is having the possibility to meet people and build stronger relationships. For example, "Once" is an Irish musical romance directed by John Carney and started Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglova as two musicians in Dublin. The film develops largely their story through songs. Indeed, the lady plays piano and the man plays guitar in the street: his heart was broken because his girlfriend left him and moved to London. [...]

[...] How can the Cultural Wrench Represent a Stressful Experience? However, even if travelling abroad is a very introspective process and teaches us so much about ourselves, leaving our country can be a stressful. Indeed, we can be afraid of the unknown because we feel insecure. For instance, in the Dubliners, a collection of short stories published in 1914, James Joyce raises the problem mentioned. The main character, in the short story studied in class, is Eveline Hill, a nineteen-year-old girl who works in a Dublin shop and lives alone with her violent and alcoholic father. [...]

[...] Spaces and Exchanges - To What Extent is Leaving One's Country an Enriching Experience? I'm going to talk about the notion of Spaces and Exchanges. All societies are defined by their geographical and symbolic spaces and how they open up these spaces to what lies farther away. The notion refers to all the movements and communications between different countries through culture, politics, economics or travel. People and nations, thanks to the emerging of new forms of spaces and new modes of exchange, now keep on borrowing the languages and cultures at an ever-increasing rate, thus deeply transforming our world. [...]

[...] To conclude, leaving our country is an opportunity to experience new things and to broaden our horizons. Indeed, we can build stronger relationships, discover similarities and differences between cultures and expand our knowledge of the outside world by visiting new locations. And furthermore, these new experiences can also help us to expand our resourcefulness and independence. Nevertheless, to be immersed into another culture and an unknown country is a difficult and stressful experience because we can feel uprooted and a bit lost. [...]