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Re research... and bias

Steven raised the issue. I responded:

"My journal and blog are more reliable because, as anecdotal as it may be, I try to share my experiences, and I'm quite upfront with being opinionated (but not necessarily right).

My experiences and insights about Costa Rica and Thailand are biased but based on the experience of living there, whilst Norway and Portugal are based on multiple visits. Same with Missoula and places I lived in Kansas, Nebraska, New York and Oklahoma.

As for on-line for-profit blogs or vlogs... many are rubbish because they are selling a product. Many travel essays are AI at best and fake at worst.

One thing you neglect to mention: most media, books, journals in the US have been written by educated white males. The bias is obvious to any neglected or marginal minority.

To be blunt? If a writer wants to know what it's like to be a drag queen they should talk to a drag queen.

Don't bother to ask most religious people about anything other than what they are taught and never ask a religious person about another group they despise. Same goes for ethnic groups and political partisans. In countries that have elites don't expect a charitable characterization of the poor."

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