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  "textContent": "When we think about international travel, our brains often play tricks on us. We suffer from what risk analysts call “perception lag.” We anchor our ideas of a country to old movies, decades-old news cycles, or generational trauma, and we assume those places are still active war zones or ganglands. Truthfully, the global security map …\n\nThe post 5 Countries Americans Mistakenly Think Are Dangerous, But Aren’t appeared first on Travel Off Path.",
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