In an incredible story of a dude being the worst, 35-year-old Brent Dowd has traveled to over 100 countries and not learned a fucking thing.
“I think traveling is one of the best things a man can do in this life,” says Brent, who “works in finance” but seems to spend most the year generally sucking on various continents across the globe. “Visiting new places is my passion. I’m like a modern-day Christopher Columbus.”
Traveling to as many countries as possible without gaining any humility or ever thinking critically about how he moves through spaces as a white American tourist is truly integral to Brent’s worldview.
“I don’t have time for people who have never traveled,” says Brent, who first flew internationally at age four for a family vacation in Mykonos. “It’s like, don’t you have any curiosity about the world?”
Brent centers his passion for exploration in various ways, including a Hinge prompt that reads “I’ll be impressed if: You can point to Burundi on a map.”
Sources are unable to determine why a geographical grasp of an East African country that holds no personal significance to Brent is so vital to his finding a partner/unlucky woman to take on one unbearable date, where he “explains” Ethiopian food to her.
“I’ve been to India, Iran, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam. The people over there are so different,” says Brent in an inscrutably broad statement about five highly distinct countries. “I need to keep my nose to the grindstone at my dad’s firm for now, but maybe when I retire I’ll become an expat.”
“Plus, I could never marry an American at this point.” Brent adds. “Their way of seeing the world is too limited.”
When asked if there’s a specific nation he aspires to immigrate to, Brent shrugged.
“Somewhere laidback with good weather,” Brent says. “It doesn’t really matter, because they speak English everywhere.”
Amazing!
