Good Essay On Effects Of Travel On Human Beings

There is a common maxim which states that “Travel broadens the mind”and no one on this earth has travelled as much as the Jews. Shaul Kellner’s book, ‘The Homeland’ is a shining example of how travel affected the mind and attitude of Jews as they had to go through diaspora several times.
Kellner in his book introduces tourism to us not just as an idle journey but rather as a political issue. When more and more people travel to foreign lands leaving their homelands behind to learn about the foreign culture and to settle there, a lot of movement takes place from one country to another. This happens either as a matter of choice, when one prefers to live in a country he likes better than his own or because of health reasons. Many British people move to Spain or countries of milder climates in order to avoid the adverse weather conditions in their own homelands. Since Britain has a harsh climate which can be detrimental for some diseases, British people move to countries with salubrious weather to get comfort. Another reason to move from one’s own country to a foreign country is when one’s life is in danger or when conditions in one’s homeland becomes so bad that one is forced to uproot himself and move to another country.
The first diaspora we know about is the Exodus when Moses freed his people from the slavery of Egypt and took them to the Promised Land. It took Jews about forty years to reach their destination. Tourism is also a form of diaspora because tourism makes people travel to a foreign land into a different culture taking a bit of their own culture to the place they travel. This benefits the travellers in their quest for knowledge and curiosity and also helps the government of both the countries to bond well with each other. Tourism is also beneficial for the economy of both the countries. It is also beneficial to both the governments as they can form an alliance with a foreign country and become an ally to each other. When a specific group of people from an ethnic community travels to a different country, they tend to form bonds with the ethnic community of that country. They search for them in order to be able to discuss the way they do things with them. They look forward to learning about the ethnic group of another country while taking pleasure to enlighten their new friends about their own culture and way of life. They learn about the similarities and differences they share with the ethnic community of the foreign land.
Zionism sought to accomplish the seemingly impossible task of gathering people, dispersed across the globe, into an ancient homeland in order to create a new society as well as an independent state. The main aim of the Jewish community is to unite its members and form independent communities. The author Shaul Kellner in his book mainly talks about the Jews who have moved from Israel to America and vice versa. Israel encourages young Jewish adults to make the trip from the United States to Israel. These efforts, which in recent years have come to include free tours of Israel for hundreds of thousands of diasporic Jewish young adults, represent the largest, most long-standing and most elaborated deployment of tourism for diaspora-building purposes in the world today.