As your post reflects, not everybody is cut out for being outside the wire/away from the big px for statistically significant portions of their lives.
Big FOB's, small minded TCN policies, lack of language & culture skills, fortress embassies, all lead to a certain constrained viewpoint which leads to where our self-selected/self-imposed azimuth has taken us.
No easy cookie-cutter fixes are available to us that I am aware of, just lots of hard work ahead over the next few decades.
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