The passport used to be the only window to the world and it still is today, even though the Internet opens it up to everyone, as it erases borders like powder erases wrinkles on the face. It is a booklet that reflects geopolitics, international relations and defines the status of the country, thus carrying a weight that far exceeds its actual weight. It allows Slovenians visa-free entry to as many as 155 countries, which, together with the Czech Republic and Slovakia, ranks it among the strongest in the world.
Passport value is really huge, even though we Slovenians are not so aware of it, but maybe we will be when we learn that, as Afghans, the possibility of visa-free travel from 155 countries abbreviated to everything 28! And ask someone from a developing country if they'd rather score on the lottery or get a United States passport, and chances are he'll choose option b if you're going to infographics (of the free movement of people) saw that the American passport is not the 'most powerful' at all. Finnish, Swedish and those with the United Kingdom mark give a free way to the car 173 from 196 countries of the world, which is only one more than the American one, but like every second, every country also counts.
But also 'conservative' and 'unwavering' boundaries, which so they unnaturally separate our planet, are no longer what they used to be, at least not in Europe, since s the Schengen agreement became more 'liberal' and thus fell far more gloriously than he fell Berlin wall. And maybe this mentality will one day infect the whole world.
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