How many countries have you been to?

Originally posted by ChessPraxis
1. USA, that's it 🙂

If you've been all around the USA that's plenty good.

Originally posted by KilgoreTrout15
If you've been all around the USA that's plenty good.

I've been to about half of the states, lived in five different ones. Locally I grew up around latinos. On the East Coast, African Americans. Now the home town has immigrants from Myanmar and Somalia. So different cultures etc.
I don't travel well.

Originally posted by ChessPraxis
I've been to about half of the states, lived in five different ones. Locally I grew up around latinos. On the East Coast, African Americans. Now the home town has immigrants from Myanmar and Somalia. So different cultures etc.
I don't travel well.

I prefer to go to places which are only 2-3 hours flight from here, at the most, so I have to stay in Europe. I would very much like to visit New York again though, maybe next year.

So, nobody here really been to Africa? (No, taking photos of the Giza pyramids in Egypt doesn't count). You guys are missing out!

My list:
Swaziland
Lesotho
Namibia
Botswana
Zimbabwe
Zambia
Malawi
Mozambique
England
Wales
The Netherlands
Germany

The next 15 years of my life I will definitely travel more.
Business will probably take me deeper into Africa, and I want to take the family all over the world with the Far East and South America high on the list, so please keep the spare room tidy.

Originally posted by Crowley
So, nobody here really been to Africa? (No, taking photos of the Giza pyramids in Egypt doesn't count). You guys are missing out!

You know I've wanted to go for a while now but always seem to get drawn back to S. America, some day for sure. There's so many countries I want to see in East Africa.

Originally posted by Crowley
So, nobody here really been to Africa?

I don't look good in khakis and a pith helmet. 😕

Originally posted by ChessPraxis
I don't look good in khakis and a pith helmet. 😕

You might not look good with machete chops to your neck either ...😀

Originally posted by Trev33
14 for me. Counting United Kingdom as one country, not England etc...

Have only managed 4 in Europe which sucks a bit.

Only the USA-22 states (by steping foot) and Canada/Vancouver Island. I have a map that I have colored in where I have been.

Originally posted by RBHILL
Only the USA-22 states (by steping foot) and Canada/Vancouver Island. I have a map that I have colored in where I have been.

If we are on to US states, I have

1. Alabama
2. Alaska
3. Arizona
4. Arkansas
5. California
6. Colorado
7. District of Colombia
8. Florida
9. Georgia
10. Hawaii
11. Illinois
12. Iowa
13. Kansas
14. Kentucky
15. Louisiana
16. Maryland
17. Massachusetts
18. Michigan
19. Mississippi
20. Missouri
21. Nevada
22. New Mexico
23. New York
24. New Hampshire
25. North Carolina
26. Ohio
27. Oklahoma
28. Oregon
29. Pennsylvania
30. Puerto Rico (“unincorporated territory of the United States&rdquo😉
31. South Carolina
32. Tennessee
33. Texas
34. Utah
35. Virginia
36. Washington
37. West Virginia
38. Wisconsin

As many states as countries, but will be in Amsterdam in June.

Might be a different state but it's still America 😛

I feel the same about India though, it's so big and it can be so different from state to state. More so than America because there are so many different official languages.

Feels a shame that someone who has only been to Goa gets to write don't the same as someone who has traveled a lot within the country. Same with the States, I've only stepped outside the airport in Colorado and Florida but there's so many more different regions with different types of people etc in other states.

Not all of them are different of course.

Originally posted by Trev33
Only in a select few number of cities though. Heard New York has more languages spoken than any other city in the world, around 80 I think.

I imagine the big cities are where cultures mix. London is one such ex-US city. What country do you think is the biggest melting pot, and do you think it's a good thing?

Originally posted by JS357
I imagine the big cities are where cultures mix. London is one such ex-US city. What country do you think is the biggest melting pot, and do you think it's a good thing?

London is one such ex-US city - what?

I don't think you can say any one country is 'the biggest melting pot', for example you could say America but then visit a small backward assed city in the south, then you could say England and go to Birmingham 😵

For sure any major western city will have a large influx of foreigners who moved looking for a 'better life'.

Do I think it's a good thing that cultures mix? Of course, do I think they mix as much as they should considering the numbers involved - no.

People here are scared into thinking foreigners come over here either to steal, live on benefits (both) or take away jobs from the locals. Thank you the BNP, The Daily Mail, The Sun and The Star. As a result they often don't get treated as good they should.

No one talks about the fact that British and Irish people have been moving around the decades/centuries and a lot of locals wouldn't touch the jobs that some immigrants do.

Aye. I've been to Malawi and it was one of the coolest vacations I've ever had, on the banks and islands of the lake. Paradise.

I'd like to still tour North Mozam and then into Tanzania, with a quick jump over to Zanzibar, and Kenya.

Originally posted by Trev33
"...No one talks about the fact that British and Irish people have been moving around the decades/centuries and a lot of locals wouldn't touch the jobs that some immigrants do.

Many Swedes moved to America when things were very bad here for poor people and for those who did not acknowledge the State Church as their faith. For them it became impossible to stay here.

I have a question. Why is the United States of America (USA) referred, mostly by people from countries other than those in the Americas, as America?