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关于我
I'm a very easygoing guy who loves to engage in a conversation with as many different people as possible. The world and its massive diversity incite me to go out and gather new experiences, especially through unconventional, alternative and local manners.
我为什么加入 Couchsurfing
Nowadays, travelling almost can't be disconnected from its original colonial roots, by which a traveller becomes someone that arrives somewhere, gets what he/she wants with disregard for local culture and leaves that place with the same contempt towards the different with which he/she arrived. This is commonplace mostly during North-South encounters when usually colonialism heritage is most vivid, so I try to engage with unfamiliar and new places differently.
I look forward to developing a two-way relationship between my background and the one derived from the culture, customs and general social environment of my travel destination. Speaking with locals, learning their own ways, paths and experiences, finding the value that being in relation to something different can provide to one's self-understanding is crucial for me during a trip, much more than it's going to a tourist spot.
The unconventional, alternative (compared to the usual tourist activities) and local journeys are the ones that attract me the most, and I find Couchsurfing a great way to disrupt the common one-way relation most tourists reproduce when travelling.
兴趣
- politics
- traveling
- anthropology
- languages
- psychology
- middle east
- academia
- postcolonial studies
我做过的一件不可思议的事情
Getting a tattoo with a Thai Buddhist monk.
我游览过的国家
Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Thailand, Uruguay, Viet Nam
我居住过的国家
Brazil