Being there doesn't mean you know the place

Submitted by experience (Australia), May 6, 2008 at 06:16

Just because you've been somewhere doesn't mean you are an expert on the socio-political realities of that place: I spent a year travelling third class in India, but I don't pretend to know about female infanticide from my travels, and at the same time I know more about the peoples of India than some privileged, wealthy Indians do.

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