If you watch pre-internet foreign movies, the architecture, art, and fashions are all so different from domestic movies from the same time period.
Very true point.
As an avid traveler, the one piece of nuance I would inject is that the amplitude of this "globalization effect" depends very much on the country/location.
As a whole, I've grown weary of most big cities, no matter the country, for this reason. They all basically copy each other, and most around the world trace back to copying USA in many ways.
But smaller towns and villages across the world are a breath of fresh air from this. I'm typing this from a small town on the coast of Colombia, and it is a completely different world here.
TLDR: There is still plenty of foreign adventure out there, just gotta extend your itinerary outside of the big cities/tourism magnets!
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Yup I'm definitely a slow traveler. At least 1 month in every place I go, unless I'm really not feeling it and want to move on (rare since even the very run-down places are a unique experience in their own)
I see so many backpackers burn themselves out living each place just a few days and bouncing to the next place. That's just pure stress in my eyes, would much rather integrate myself in the cultures I'm surrounded with on a deep level before transitioning to the next.
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