Comment by tptacek
17 days ago
I don't know, I compulsively read Wikivoyage pages and pretty much every page I read says "don't talk politics with the locals".
17 days ago
I don't know, I compulsively read Wikivoyage pages and pretty much every page I read says "don't talk politics with the locals".
I've actually travelled a lot (ground truthing pre WGS84 map datums and geophysical exploration) and both things can be true;
* locals everywhere discuss politics between themselves, many are able to discuss politics 'reasonably' but things can and do get heated, AND
* it's good advice as a traveller to not get drawn into political discussions with locals. Listen by all means, going further can be a bad move.
I recall a radiometric survey in Nor'Western India when an underground mini nuke was detonated near our aircraft .. that got rather tense, particularly when the others were detonated and Pakistan responded.
Not a good time to discuss where the border ran.