Ezekiel Emanuel: evaluation

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…Travel as a way of understanding the world. Probably underrated. Ought to be overrated, I would say. I grew up in the ’60s, and my father, who grew up in Israel and then went to Switzerland for medical school, always thought travel was great. We were not very rich when we grew up. He was a struggling, newly immigrated doctor to the United States, but my father saved all sorts of money. We had holey pants. We used to go to school in holey pants before holey pants were fashionable. But he would save money for international travel in the ’60s. Most of our rich friends, they went to Florida. But we would go on very cheap trips to Europe, very cheap trips to Israel, because he always thought going and experiencing other cultures increases your empathy, increases your understanding of the complexity of the world, different cultures. It’s very important to do. Not important to go to the heavily touristed Paris, London, but I think other places, like Alesund, is definitely well worth it. Spencer Waller. Overrated or underrated?…

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