In the Beginning

New Zealand, Australia, and The United States of America all have backgrounds that are similar in nature. First off, all the country's in question were founded by Great Britain. The first country is Australia and it was originally founded to be a prision for all of Britains most dangerous convicts. The convicts originally landed near Sydney and stayed near the coast because the Outback was so inhospitable. New Zealand was discovered by Britain and was made into a prision and farmland. United States on theother hand was founded because Britain wanted more wealth for the epanding empire. All these colonies obviously broke free of the iron fist of the british empire.

What came first...?

1.) I beleive that there are many reasons that every culture creates their own creation stories. I believe that humans have a natural tendency to try to explain things that they don't have an explaination for, whether we explain it as supernatural or it just happened that way. I beleive this has something to do with being insecure, or even feeling vunerable when we don't understand things in life. I also believe creation myths have a place in the world today. Look at the debate between Creationists and Evolutionists, this is still a hottly contested debate that has lasted decades.
2.) The different creation stories from the two different cultures reveal much about their views and priorities. Forhe Maori's, they emphasize heavily on the family aspect of life and how important the women are in the culture. They talk a lot about the creation of women and how they relate to the family. The Aborigine's on the other handdeeply respect the insects and animals across their land. They speak very detailed about the creation of animals before the humans. In the Aboriginal story, they state "Then she created fish, snakes, lizards, and frogs."
4.) The stories create multipule eternal problems in the world today. First off, the Aboriginal story explains how the heck a platypus came to be which helped the Aborigine's explain that. Also, both the stories explain how humans came to be and where the sun and moon comes from.

Why we travel

There are many reasons that I travel, and they are pretty much the same as Lyer’s reasons. When I travel to new places, I watch the people and try to learn as much as possible from them. I also expect them to be doing the same to me, monitoring me and trying to learn about my heritage from my appearance and body language. I try to represent where I come from and what I represent the best I can when I’m out and about. Iyer’s quote “I travel to see new eyes, not new destinations” is a deep quote that applies to many people, especially me. He is talking about his quest to meet new people throughout the world. He is talking about not only seeing new, beautiful places, but the people that make them beautiful. His other quote means that what makes traveling exciting is not the actual traveling part, but the unknown component to the travels. Where will I sleep tonight? What will I do tomorrow? Who will I meet next? On our journey, we will be meeting indigenous people who will increase our understanding and appreciating the country we will be in. I most certainly believe that travelers have the responsibility to transfer their experiences in life to one another. It’s a given that the person from the different country will have new experiences that you might never have a chance to do, so you might have to live those experiences through them.