Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Travel may not cure prejudice, the speaker admits, but it can show that people everywhere cry, laugh, eat, worry and die. Seeing those shared basics might open the thought that understanding one another is possible, and that friendship could even follow.

Context reviewed 20 September 2026