According to the US State Department, only 37% of Americans have a passport, compared to the British, who own passports at a rate of around 70%. Europeans tend to laugh at this discrepancy, while Americans chuckle and point out how even the biggest European countries would fit comfortably in some of our states; we don’t need to travel between nations to get somewhere different.
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