Wandering… to learn

In the near future, I’d like to visit the historical, architectonic, cultural and human heritage of places like Cuba, Vietnam, Venezuela, Switzerland, Greece, Nordic countries like Finland. I would like to know the South American and African reality, by visiting as many countries as I can.

All of these trips will have more than a touristic goal, I will make them for learning. These are countries with internal processes that are worthy to be praised, and to be imitated.

I would like to visit Cuba, Vietnam and Venezuela because these are some of the few Socialist countries that have survived the extermination, felonies and intervention of the Capitalist empire, and the world corporativism, so I can know their people’s realities, their manner to make politics, and the hard battle and resistance they’ve made to insist on their ideologies after so many years. In the case of Switzerland and the Nordic countries (Finland, specifically) I’d like to visit it because of its participative and direct democracy, and their effective social policies in the area of education, respectively. Greece, because it was the birth place of the Western civilization, and of the politics as a concept. Finally, South American and African countries to meet common problems of the third world, potentially rich countries, living as poor ones.

I’d preferably do these trips on plane, and once getting into such countries, I’d like to move inside on the public transport, the one used by most people, I’d like to pass unobserved and get “wet” from their culture, I can’t just not take a bike, too, to run across their towns and settlements.

I would do these trips with friends, with similar thoughts, and others with my family. I would like to be in each country for a month. The possibility of residing permanently in one of these places is, at the moment, ruled out, as I feel I have the compromise of contributing to my country and its reality. It’s a must, almost biological.