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user-inactivated  ·  3514 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Have you ever studied abroad?

As an adult I studied/rented apartment/worked in a Central American country for a bit more than a year.

Do it. Do it any way that you can.

Learn what evidence other nations bring to you about being from your homeland. Then gather it up, and return home. Go be an obvious minority national in another place and see what it feels like there. Do it in another language if you can.

Then come home. Because every country needs more understanding of cosmopolitanism.