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Dromomania

Dromomania

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"Dromomania [...] is an uncontrollable psychological urge to wander. People with this condition spontaneously depart from their routine, travel long distances and take up different identities and occupations. Months may pass before they return to their former identities." [wiki]

"Dromomania" ~ being a mania ~ is too rare and extreme a condition to discuss here but it makes a good thread title!

So, what about the impact on the human spirit of a much milder form of dromomania..."the urge to wander"... holidaying, travel, migration, naturalization, foreign cultures, work in the diplomatic service, overseas postings, missionary work, volunteering etc. etc.

What is the impact on us of travel? What is the impact on us of a lack of travel?

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You travel internationally in the course of your work. How does it [assuming it does!] affect [1] your views on the human condition, and [2] how you see yourself?

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American? I would have never guessed it.

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strangely enough i often fantasise about you moving away too, usually its to the moon. 😵

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Most of what you see on American TV is for entertainment. You Europeans take it much too seriously.

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Originally posted by RJHinds
Most of what you see on American TV is for entertainment. You Europeans take it much too seriously.
Surely, pretty much everything that's on TV, all the time, everywhere around the world, in every country, on every channel, at every hour of the day, stretching back to when TV started, is for "entertainment" on some level or other? What distinction are you trying to draw between America and Europe, and on what basis?

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Pardon me if I misunderstood you.

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Originally posted by FMF
Surely, pretty much everything that's on TV, all the time, everywhere around the world, in every country, on every channel, at every hour of the day, is for "entertainment" on some level or other? What distinction are you trying to draw between America and Europe, and on what basis?
That Europeans are backward people who believe such things as evolution and other nonsense very easily.

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Originally posted by RJHinds
That Europeans are backward people who believe such things as evolution and other nonsense very easily.
Do you see evidence of this in the European TV entertainment that makes it onto American screens?

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Originally posted by FMF
"Dromomania [...] is an uncontrollable psychological urge to wander. People with this condition spontaneously depart from their routine, travel long distances and take up different identities and occupations. Months may pass before they return to their former identities." [wiki]

"Dromomania" ~ being a mania ~ is too rare and extreme a condition to disc ...[text shortened]... etc. etc.

What is the impact on us of travel? What is the impact on us of a lack of travel?
"Dromomania"

Does the "dromo" part of this word have the same root as "dromedary"?