Oh, I see. Well, sort of - I couldn't read the link - but I'm fairly used to people being disappointed with the regular old Birthright trips because there are such high expectation of the experience of a lifetime, learning so much about yourself, transcendental bonding on a possibly atomic level, curing world hunger, etc, etc.
It's just all a bit overblown (deliberately so) and people shouldn't feel bad or that there's something wrong with them (something the program basically tacitly encourages) if it's all kind of ho-hum. If you had a bad experience, you're justified in feeling like you had a bad experience, and it might be a lot of people's fault, but it seems unfair that YOU should be the one carrying that around.
Again, sorry for rambling on here, I obviously don't know anything about the specifics of your trip or how you felt, but I have some moderately strong opinions on Taglit and some of it's ideological and sociological baggage. Anyway, if you ever want to complain about it, I'm always up for a little genial Birthright bashing.
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It's just all a bit overblown (deliberately so) and people shouldn't feel bad or that there's something wrong with them (something the program basically tacitly encourages) if it's all kind of ho-hum. If you had a bad experience, you're justified in feeling like you had a bad experience, and it might be a lot of people's fault, but it seems unfair that YOU should be the one carrying that around.
Again, sorry for rambling on here, I obviously don't know anything about the specifics of your trip or how you felt, but I have some moderately strong opinions on Taglit and some of it's ideological and sociological baggage. Anyway, if you ever want to complain about it, I'm always up for a little genial Birthright bashing.