"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
How can you tell that a person went to an Ivy league school? Wait 15 minutes, and they will tell you.
This doesn't say much for travel, LOL.
So when is Dennis Prager paying for my vacation?
(sound of crickets ...)
It sounds like he's an advocate of "adultescence" - I was married and had a child at the age when he suggests people should take a year off for travel (who's paying, again, honey?) and THEN college, grad school, blahblahblah.
Oh, well, somebody has to do the work ...
The reason why Australians get on with most immigrants is that the general attitude of Aussies is that you are a mate until you prove otherwise.
Of course once you prove otherwise your likely to receive a severe ass-kicking -see Cronulla riots
Mel
Vacations are a necessity. That's one area where the US does lag - Prager's privileged situation aside, it isn't surprising that so few Americans travel broadly with only twoi weeks a year leave. Who wants to spend a day or two traveeling out of such a meager allotment.
Personally I favour longer breaks - the productivity payoffs are worth it.
Oh, come on, Dennis ... how do you know what it's like being a waiter or cleaning worker on a cruise ship? Or a waiter or cleaning worker on dry land in the U.S., for that matter?
Redgolum, notice how he expects the person "in his or her 20's" to have a year for cruise ship work. Now how old is this person when he *finally* settles down to a real job and family?
This is an example of why we red-state cleaning folks are outbreeding Dennis Prager's New York elitists by such a huge margin.
It was fantastic going through the locks and stopping at all the different countries, but the grandkids did not empathize with the help on the cruise ship or the native peoples. We would see their poverty and then hop aboard our luxury liner, to be served a 6 course meal including lobster and steak that night.
It was sort of hypocritical and made me feel uncomfortable. It would be a better learning experience, immersing one self with the culture, living there for a few weeks, not escaping to your luxury digs every night.
Most college-aged kids learn about where to find the cheapest booze and the best places to go to pick up members of the opposite sex. I wouldn't call that learning about life, but whatever.
Above all vacations are a necessity rather than a luxury.
Lots of people can't afford an actual trip every year, or simply don't have the vacation time to do it after they've spent it visiting relatives for various reasons. (I suppose some can get recharged after visiting relatives for a week, but not me.) I do feel recharged after I've taken a few days to just hang around the house.