Comments on: ‘Traveling While American’ just got easier…. http://urbantravelgirl.com/2009/04/08/%e2%80%98traveling-while-american%e2%80%99-just-got-easier%e2%80%a6/ thoughts on black women living globally through international travel Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:16:25 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: urbantravelgirl http://urbantravelgirl.com/2009/04/08/%e2%80%98traveling-while-american%e2%80%99-just-got-easier%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-86 urbantravelgirl Wed, 13 May 2009 04:43:07 +0000 http://urbantravelgirl.com/?p=122#comment-86 Hola, Senora PlanetNomad! You're SO right ... we Americans need to learn how to separate PEOPLE from their GOVERNMENT'S POLITICS. If people around the world held our country's often-crazy policies against us, we'd be stoned every time we stepped across another country's border. Speaking of the Iraq War, my sister and I took my mom to Paris for her birthday back in 2003 -- a trip that turned out to be just a couple weeks after the start of the conflict. We wondered whether to go and then realized that our strongest protest AGAINST it was to go to Paris, have a great time, and let our French brothers and sisters know that not all of us Americans were supporters of Bush's war. That "citizen diplomacy" goes a LONG way! Hola, Senora PlanetNomad!
You’re SO right … we Americans need to learn how to separate PEOPLE from their GOVERNMENT’S POLITICS. If people around the world held our country’s often-crazy policies against us, we’d be stoned every time we stepped across another country’s border.

Speaking of the Iraq War, my sister and I took my mom to Paris for her birthday back in 2003 — a trip that turned out to be just a couple weeks after the start of the conflict. We wondered whether to go and then realized that our strongest protest AGAINST it was to go to Paris, have a great time, and let our French brothers and sisters know that not all of us Americans were supporters of Bush’s war. That “citizen diplomacy” goes a LONG way!

]]> By: planetnomad http://urbantravelgirl.com/2009/04/08/%e2%80%98traveling-while-american%e2%80%99-just-got-easier%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-85 planetnomad Tue, 12 May 2009 17:56:02 +0000 http://urbantravelgirl.com/?p=122#comment-85 TELL me about it! We have mostly lived in Muslim countries, and I've had to deal with my kids getting hassled in the playground, rocks thrown at our car, etc., all for something I didn't agree with in the first place! We were in France during the start of the Iraq War (2003-2004) and we found, like you, people were very polite to us but made it clear they were able to separate individuals from their government's decisions. I wish Americans could do the same. TELL me about it! We have mostly lived in Muslim countries, and I’ve had to deal with my kids getting hassled in the playground, rocks thrown at our car, etc., all for something I didn’t agree with in the first place!
We were in France during the start of the Iraq War (2003-2004) and we found, like you, people were very polite to us but made it clear they were able to separate individuals from their government’s decisions. I wish Americans could do the same.

]]> By: urbantravelgirl http://urbantravelgirl.com/2009/04/08/%e2%80%98traveling-while-american%e2%80%99-just-got-easier%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-83 urbantravelgirl Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:20:33 +0000 http://urbantravelgirl.com/?p=122#comment-83 Isn’t it exciting? I can’t wait to hear your feedback next time YOU travel overseas… will be fascinating to hear what folks are thinking and saying! Isn’t it exciting? I can’t wait to hear your feedback next time YOU travel overseas… will be fascinating to hear what folks are thinking and saying!

]]> By: Avis W. http://urbantravelgirl.com/2009/04/08/%e2%80%98traveling-while-american%e2%80%99-just-got-easier%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-84 Avis W. Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:18:38 +0000 http://urbantravelgirl.com/?p=122#comment-84 I can’t wait to travel abroad post-Obama election, too, just to see how we Americans will be perceived. Bon voyage! I can’t wait to travel abroad post-Obama election, too, just to see how we Americans will be perceived. Bon voyage!

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