TV shows are geared towards producing dopamine for the masses. I don't see how that realistically represents a country's culture.
Even China, which bans a lot of degenerate stuff, has all of those weird shows they consider funny.
Anyway, I do feel as though saying "elsewhere is better" is simply too broad and could set guys up for disappointment.
I don't know what OP is thinking, but this "other cultures are better" sentiment is the modern variation of the noble savage. The noble savage doesn't exist anymore, if he ever did. For a long time, the Anglosphere has enjoyed a semi-assimilating migration of these passive, modest, easy-going non-whites. On the other hand, it appears some Europeans just went 0 to jihadi hell to try to out-virtue multicultural America. Point being, as long as you avoid blacks or muslims, you might even have a positive impression of multiculturalism.
What we have are whites, oblivious to the nature of real [red pill] dynamics, who think brown people are "nice" and "simple", who eat the scraps and say thank you. Therefore, their countries must be the same. This is heavily propagated by people traveling as well. There are a lot of white people who think the third world is going to duplicate this particular racial dynamic they experienced domestically. For a time, this was even true to a degree. Some countries gave white people preferential treatment due to the status of the west, but not anymore. There's a lot of simplicity in poverty, but no one wants to be poor. Good to remember that. So all we can really hope for in our travels is the friendliness and hospitality of the browns to make us stay.
It is actually amazing how retarded some whites are. White people believe that it's wrong to be racist but then deny these browns their ethnic identity. Despite these browns droning on for decades now about how they want to turn everything brown, because that's the only way they can have self-esteem, you still have white people that can't let go of this delusion that all brown people are going to morph into an Oreo, and we'll all be a happy family. White on the inside, black on the outside. Of course, a white person would never say it like that. Whites believe in the virtuous default setting of the human. We want to believe that without the corruption of modernity, the whole world would look like the Shire from LOTR. As we can see, some of us are convinced the Shire is everywhere but here.
Well, it turns out brown people do have an identity and sometimes even lack one.
There are countries that don't have a unique culture and are easily molded. For example, there are a lot of Jamaican imitators. There seems to be a Caribbean sphere where all the young people do some "island" version of American ghettos. These types of countries are going to be heavily Westernized if not already. They're either going to be Reddit tier liberal or some ignorant ghetto.
There are countries that do have their own unique culture. For me, this can be checked by the strength of their cinema, television and perhaps music. Your assertion that TV doesn't matter is flawed in my opinion. It matters a lot. If it's watchable, then the culture probably has endurance. Maybe it doesn't give you a realistic version of the life of a local taxi driver, but it confirms the existence of a unique culture, and it also gives you a glimpse into it. Bollywood, Korean K-pop, Jap anime, etc. There are many examples and not so well-known ones.
I didn't mean to sound condescending. If you gravitate towards a certain culture, you should immerse yourself in it. That will only help you live there. If you don't want to watch their TV because that's boring, then you're not going to like living there. You're not going to fall back on the locals catering to your needs because they're "nice" while you do your own thing. You either embrace their quirks or walk around like a fish out of water.
What a lot of us white people end up discovering is that our [white] culture is actually pretty good. Cream of the crop, perhaps. White people may be the true hobbits from LOTR. I'm not discouraging being a passport bro, I support it but there's no reason to sugar coat it. Traveling is fun in itself. Why do I need to dress it up with BS utopian promises? Are we women that need promises of a sweet life?
