Oh how I want Samantha Brown's job...

One of my favorite channels on television is the Travel Channel. It is a channel that embraces different ethnicities and culture and showcases the positive aspects of traveling throughout the world. I feel that people who are more open are willing to travel to different places and explore for themselves. I especially like Samantha Brown, though I admit I am supremely jealous of her because she has such an ideal job. What I most especially like about the Travel Channel is that Samantha Brown, as well as Anthony Bordain and Andrew Zimmern, encourage viewers to experience new things, especially different foods. There is nothing like submersing yourself in another person's culture than eating with them and seeing first hand what their culture is like. Though many other channels on television showcase diversity and positive images of all races and cultures, the Travel Channel to me is the most positive and open of all television channels. Much like the History Channel, the Travel Channel also gives historical accounts of the different countries. I like Samantha Brown as well because she doesn't just hit the tourist spots, but interacts with true locals and goes to true cultural celebrations and tastes local cuisine that is not affected or altered to favor tourists. If you've never watched the Travel Channel, I highly suggest you start to watch. But a fair warning for you: it will make you want to travel, and if you're as broke as I am, it can be more than slighlty upsetting to realize that it won't happen too soon.