matt damonMatt Damon has said that he thinks people in the US would be more interested in foreign affairs if they travelled more - and they’d also be more proud of their country’s relief efforts overseas.

He told Conde Nast Traveller recently: “I think many of our problems as a country would be solved if people had thick passports. There’s just no substitute for actually going and seeing things.

“You start to feel a level of responsibility to direct attention to things that actually matter more than to silly things like who [people] are dating.”

The Bourne Ultimatum star visited clinics in Tanzania earlier in the year and saw young children receiving anti-malarial medicine: “I realized that because of President Bush’s malaria initiative, this baby had survived. American taxpayer money saved this baby’s life.

“When you go to a country and see your fellow Americans feeding people or getting clean water or saving their lives, you are really seeing the best of us. We are exporting the best of who we are - and who we should be.”

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