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 由于太长，一下贴出来，估计大多数人都吓跑了 。起不到什么作用。最怕那种长篇大论，哈哈。所以每次贴两条，分十天贴完，每天贴新帖之后，把旧贴再合并。
On March 13, 2007, I handed over the keys to my house, put my possessions in storage and headed out to travel around the world with nothing but a backpack, my laptop and a camera.
2007年3月13号，我交出了房子的钥匙，将我的东西都放在储藏室里面，背上背包，带上笔记本和相机，开始了我的环球之旅。
Three and a half years and 70 countries later, I've gotten the equivalent of a Ph.D in general knowledge about the people and places of Planet Earth. Here are some of the things I've learned:
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3年内，我走遍了70个国家，在对地球上各地风土人情的了解方面，我可以说是相当于博士毕业了。
下面是我在旅程中学到的东西：
1) People are generally good.
Many people are afraid of the world beyond their door, yet the vast majority of humans are not thieves, murderers or rapists. They are people just like you and me who are trying to get by, to help their families and go about living their lives. There is no race, religion or nationality that is exempt from this rule. How they go about living their lives might be different, but their general goals are the same.
总的来说还是好人多：许多人害怕他们门外的世界，然而世界上绝大多数人既不是小偷、也不是劫匪和色魔。他们和你我一样，只是普通的人——和家人互相扶持，维持生活而已。这一条在所有的种族、所有的宗教和所有的国家都成立。他们赖以维生的方式可能不同，但是他们生活的目标大致相同。
2) The media lies
If you only learned about other countries from the news, you'd think the world was a horrible place. The media will always sensationalize and simplify a story. I was in East Timor when the assassination attempts on President José Ramos-Horta, and Prime Minister Xanana Gusm?o in 2008. The stories in the news the next day were filed from Jakarta or Kuala Lumpur, not Dili. It was all secondhand news. I was in Bangkok during the political protests this year, but you'd never have any idea they were taking places if you were not in the immediate area where the protests were taking place. The media makes us scared of the rest of the world, and we shouldn't be.
媒体总是说谎：如果你只从新闻上了解其他国家的话，你会觉得外面的世界真是吓人。媒体息管了危言耸听和简化叙事。2008年我在东帝汶，正好有人企图暗杀他们的总统José Ramos-Horta和总理Xanana Gusm?o。第二天新闻上的故事居然是从雅加达或者吉隆坡发来的，而不是从帝力来的——完完全全的二手消息。当泰国红杉军闹事的时候我正好在曼谷，但是如果你不去他们聚集的地方你根本意识不到有这么回事。媒体让受众对世界上其他地方满怀恐惧，其实我们并没有必要这样。 |
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