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The View From Somewhere Else

Andy Owen travels to see various perspectives from various perspectives.

This last year of lockdowns has led me to reflect on what travel has taught me. My first journey to another continent was a trip to South Africa as a seventeen-year-old, in 1994, the year Nelson Mandela became the first black president of the country. The trip had a deep impact on me. The inequality, the injustice, the dignified response, the vibrancy, the possibility and the determination to be better, became real to me in a way that only direct immersion in the sights, sounds and smells of a place can allow.

Exposure to how others live can challenge how we feel about how we live, and how we should live.

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