Every person I have met who was in the Peace Corps has retained an active interest in the country or region they were posted to and these associations can be great for citizen-to-citizen diplomatic efforts. Any effort to combat American provincialism is a good thing....it's also a great gig for people not yet ready to retire....oldsters might actually have something to teach our less resource endowed friends abroad.
Lure D. Lou writes: First of all it is a hands-on training ground for future USAID and State Department staff
As the State Department's budget shrinks and more and more places are uncomfortable or even dangerous for Americans to travel to the Peace Corps can serve a useful purpose. First of all it is a hands-on training ground for future USAID and State Department staff, it gives the volunteer a chance to do some responsible post-college work and allows foreigners to meet some young Americans -- clueless goof-balls that many of them are. But what's so wrong with that? Better than Cheney mini-me's. Every person I have met who was in the Peace Corps has retained an active interest in the country or region they were posted to and these associations can be great for citizen-to-citizen diplomatic efforts. Any effort to combat American provincialism is a good thing....it's also a great gig for people not yet ready to retire....oldsters might actually have something to teach our less resource endowed friends abroad.
