One gets inspected as he inspects the world around him.
Traveling not only lets us observe different cultures but also makes us a subject of curiosity for others.
True, The passage states that when we travel, we are scrutinized just as much as we scrutinize others, implying that travellers are also observed by the locals and their cultures.
“I put the brown paper in my pocket along with the chalks, and possibly other things. I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one’s pocket: the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long: and the age of the great epics is past.”
(From G.K. Chesterton’s “A Piece of Chalk”)
Based only on the information provided in the above passage, which one of the following statements is true?