Adidas asked:


Let’s say you went on a business trip to the poorest country in the world and you were invited to a conference at the only luxury hotel.
You see people starving everywhere, naked children playing in mud and civil unrest in a corrupt government. Would you still have the heart to stay in the BEST luxury hotel there?
Your hotel has running water, electricity (rare), elevators (which is a novelty in this country), TV, fridge, warm king sized bed and all that we take for granted. But through the window of your comfortable hotel, you see dirty slums and people dying from diseases and bloody riots.

Sam

Joy asked:


Seriously. If you want to experience another culture, then why stay in a 5 star resort that’s more American or British than anything else? If I wanted the Hilton with a prepackaged exotic meal I could just stay in America. Why doesn’t anyone ever just backpack across Europe or Asia anymore? Why doesn’t anyone go off the beaten path? And speaking of such, aren’t there programs where students or people can swap families for a month or so like they used to have?

Clinton