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3 Jul 2018 Conversations with Tyler Juan Pablo Villarino on Travel and Trust
“” What I think happens is that somehow our society has driven us into the idea that you have your own house, and when you get out of the house, you just move into your little bit of moving private space, into your car.”
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- Juan Pablo Villarino
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- evaluation
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- 3 Jul 2018
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Those countries have plenty of cars. Why are they so slow? That’s amazing. To be hitchhiking in Scandinavia, you see all this row of Volvo cars passing you by [laughs] and they will never ever stop. I had talked to a Swedish friend of mine, and she just said, “Yeah, I wouldn’t stop either,” she said, “because it’s so cheap and affordable to have a car. Then if someone is hitchhiking and doesn’t have a car, you would think he has second intentions or something wrong is going on here. ” What I think happens is that somehow our society has driven us into the idea that you have your own house, and when you get out of the house, you just move into your little bit of moving private space, into your car. And it’s sometimes difficult to break that cycle and be ready to share, to meet, to mix. That’s pretty much the norm in Nordic societies. It makes it a bit more difficult to hitchhike there. In a typical year, how many months of the year are you out there hitchhiking?…
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