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They promised us the world
Would be a global village
Instead of one community
Divided lands of opportunity
Parallel lives lived in one single universe
Separated from those that came off worse
From city to city
Isolating the periphery
Disconnected life
On our island
Without a notion of the others
From the center to the outpost
We forget to lend a hand
From the east coast to the west coast
We forgot our hinterland
This connected life
From town to town
All these connected lives
In the ocean
On the horizon
Where touring and critical thinking meet. When touring around the world and going to new places we always wonder what kind of people we will meet. Whether they are closely connected to their local cultures and practices or a product of a globalizing world. In most cases it’s the latter; we meet like minded people, living similar lives to our own. They just happen to be a couple of thousand kilometers away.
Simultaneously there are encounters with people living only 5 km away whose ideas and lifestyle are extremely hard to relate to. People that grew up pretty much the same way we did, who have completely different views. This shows in cities with relatively progressive majors, in quite conservative countries. Differences between countries might have declined, within countries they seem to have grown. Sometimes Bogota, Colombia feels nearer than Groesbeek.
Over the last decades people started to believe the world would become a unified global village through international trade, growing individual mobility and the internet. Looking at today’s world, that project has not yet succeeded. Even though malls and shopping districts worldwide look exactly alike with all the same shops, (groups of) people still seem to live on their respective islands. But the connection between those islands is getting stronger and stronger.