It's only appropriate to start a blog about travel with an explanation of why I picked the "Every Nation Project" as my title as opposed to cities or countries or some other geo-cultural indicator.
Perhaps it is my background in political science or my experience from traveling to different regions of various countries (including the United States) that has clearly established for me that one anthem, language or flag may unite people but that unity is not homogeneous.
This is also the reason that several countries appear on my blog more than once, because going to Amsterdam is not representative of Holland; it's a representation of the Netherlands and there are others. Just like London is a representation of England and Bavaria is a representation of Germany, they aren't definitive and usually just feed the stereotypes shown in movies.
From the Black British street preacher shouting sermons to the masses of shoppers outside of the Bullring shopping center in Birmingham to the tattooed naked man with gray dreadlocks in Barcelona I want to show what the places I've gone to have really been like rather than the caricatures.
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