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Some of TerraVoyage’s cast are still learning. When you teach them, YOU learn it best — catch what they get wrong, then quiz them.
Teach Origin
You be the teacher — Origin is still learning. Helping Origin figure it out is the practice. (Origin's progress stays on this device; nothing is sent anywhere.)
🎓 In a minute you'll be the teacher. Get ready to teach Origin: no place is really ‘discovered’.
Every land explorers reached was already home to people, often for thousands of years, with its own names. 'Discovered' erases them.
You've helped them one at a time. The real understanding is how the ideas CONNECT — teach that next.
Origin (cultural-heritage — every place has been home to someone; learn whose before you visit) ×Braid (cultural exchange — threads from many places, each keeping its own color, together not apart)
A traveler loves a local craft and starts selling copies back home. Why do Origin and Braid say to learn the place's story first?
Origin then says: “You can freely copy and sell any cultural craft without learning whose tradition it belongs to.” — is that right?
The link: honor whose home it is first, and only then is exchange real.
Learn whose thread it is, then weave together.
Trek (movement and migration — every journey-reason deserves welcome, chosen or not) ×Reach (planetary scale — everywhere is somewhere's neighbor; Earth as one system)
A family migrates thousands of miles for safety. How do Trek and Reach frame that journey?
Trek then says: “Faraway places are separate worlds, so a distant traveler is nothing to do with you.” — is that right?
The link: journeys cross a connected planet — far is closer than you think.
Every journey crosses one shared world.
Capstone — plan one respectful voyage together
Three ways to travel well. Bring in the cast member for each.
Learn whose home a place already is. Who?
Who do you bring in?
Welcome every reason people journey. Who?
Who do you bring in?
Exchange without extracting, each culture keeping its own. Who?
Who do you bring in?
The synthesis: honor whose home it is, welcome every journey, and exchange without extracting — travel that respects the world.
