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Answer the following question : What are the benefits of travel ?

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Answer the following question :

What are the benefits of travel?

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Traveling is a good way of ridding oneself of certain kinds of dogmatism by becoming aware of opinions held in social circles different from one's own. It is also very profitable in diminishing the intensity of insular prejudice.

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Chapter 4.3: Intellectual Rubbish - English Workshop [Page 99]

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Chapter 4.3 Intellectual Rubbish
English Workshop | Q 7. (c) | Page 99

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