Quote: I do not know...

[Tom]

Hello everybody

Could you please elaborate the given quote for me, or simplify for that matter?

" I do not know who said 'travels broadens the mind', but he should have added ' the broader the mind, the thinner it gets'. Most of the shallowest people I have seen in most places, I have seen through the eyes of a travel folder."

Waiting anxiously for I could understand nothing from it.

Tom

[Yankee]

Hi Tom

That is unusual. It almost seems to be saying "Beauty is only skin deep" --- in a very roundabout way.

Amy

[Tom]

Thanks, Amy a lot

Could you please, please explain these lines for me?

"Most of the shallowest people I have seen in most places, I have seen through the eyes of a travel folder."



Ever yours

Tom

[Guest]

[Yankee]

Hi Cap'n Jan

I think you interpreted that sentence well.
Travel and travel folders are only the surface of a country and usually only an idealized surface. It's shallow. You can't truly get to know and understand a foreign country simply as a tourist.

Amy