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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl
VERY true.
Also, being such a large country, you have far less need to look outside your own borders.
First time I heard about the low percentage of Americans with passports I was shocked. I mean really viscerally shocked. It was quite a while later when I really thought about it, and the sheer size of the States, that I began to realise it wasn't due to American xenophobia or ignorance (although my reaction was due to ignorance on my part.)
Growing up on a small island just off mainland Europe with its many small countries is a very different situation to growing up on a reasonably homogenised continent.
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*Winces* I don't have a passport. I did have, once...a one year passport...my housemate used it to roach his joint :P