Up in the air
by Shougat Dasgupta
Jun 07, 2019
3 minutes
We know Pico Iyer as an apostle of travel, an evangelist of globalism. In a popular 2013 TED talk, he described the "typical person" he meets on his travels: "Let's say a half-Korean, half-German young woman living in Paris." And as soon, he adds, "as she meets a half-Thai, half-Canadian young guy from Edinburgh, she recognises him as kin, she realises that she probably has much more in common with him than anybody entirely of Korea, or entirely of Germany."
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