Increase Western Visits to the Great Wall of China
Granted, the world has come a long way. Our understanding of other countries and cultures has evolved rapidly in the past decades. People travel more. The Internet has closed the knowledge gap significantly.
But it is not enough. Take China, a country that is home to more than a billion people on Earth, a country with so much culture and history – and so many of us know so little about it. If we truly want to build a better place for all of us to live in, we need to take more solid steps in closing cultural gaps.
A good place to start is by significantly ramping up tours to China and making Great Wall of China tours a mandatory part of the trip. After all, this is probably the longest-ever construction project in the world, starting at 7th Century BC and continuing until 17th Century AD.
How much do Westerners know about its history, why it was built, who built it, how the...