Everyone all around the expresses desires, secretly or out loud, or they enact their desires by essentially performing them or chasing towards that dream. Traveling, adventurous and accessible, draws the eyes of modern day youth day by day whether it is through social media or family trips over the summer, yet several individuals don’t ever leave the town they grew up in. Perhaps the underprivileged individual doesn’t have the means, money or motive to explore the world for what it is all about, the small town they live in feels tightknit and comfortable, stepping outside that comfort zone might result in anxiety about the uncertainty of the outside world. In order for today’s youth to understand the global world that is forever changing, they
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In Mike Rose’s Blue-Collar Brilliance, he argues that people who make “generalizations about intelligence, work, and social class deeply affect our assumptions and about ourselves and each other, guiding the ways we use our minds to learn, build knowledge, solve problems, and make our way through the world” (Rose 163). Travelling can build ones knowledge and skills by just putting one’s self out there to brave the world, it can also build one’s intellect further and guild a young traveller into a wise explorer. Many societies believe that small town people are basically composed of farmers and high school dropouts who won’t make anything of themselves, but there are the few academic students who can prove social norms wrong. Skills that they have picked up from living in their small vicinity for the majority of their lives, they can travel and apply those skills elsewhere and they can also improve on skills in a way they never thought possible. For example they could travel to improve on a skill, like if a small town student wanted to improve on their French, they could participate in a program that takes them to France, Switzerland or Belgium that would completely immerse them in the culture and language, allowing the students to improve on their language skills. Much like starting a new job, travelling to build up on a skill are both similar in the way they put a person in a situation and they have to follow the steps to building that
In Mike Rose’s Blue-Collar Brilliance, he argues that people who make “generalizations about intelligence, work, and social class deeply affect our assumptions and about ourselves and each other, guiding the ways we use our minds to learn, build knowledge, solve problems, and make our way through the world” (Rose 163). Travelling can build ones knowledge and skills by just putting one’s self out there to brave the world, it can also build one’s intellect further and guild a young traveller into a wise explorer. Many societies believe that small town people are basically composed of farmers and high school dropouts who won’t make anything of themselves, but there are the few academic students who can prove social norms wrong. Skills that they have picked up from living in their small vicinity for the majority of their lives, they can travel and apply those skills elsewhere and they can also improve on skills in a way they never thought possible. For example they could travel to improve on a skill, like if a small town student wanted to improve on their French, they could participate in a program that takes them to France, Switzerland or Belgium that would completely immerse them in the culture and language, allowing the students to improve on their language skills. Much like starting a new job, travelling to build up on a skill are both similar in the way they put a person in a situation and they have to follow the steps to building that