In the US anyway there's an entire subculture of people who fear even the idea of spending significant time in other parts of the world. To them this would mean being exposed to potentially "corrupting" ideas and behavior. A consequence IMO of the psychological/emotional fraying that purity movements typically lead to.
-Dave-
Yes, and I think I experienced them back in the late forties/very early fifties when I was in a boarding school in India run by American, Canadian and Oz Baptist missionaries.
It was the first time I came into contact with the pleasures of the cane: we used to spend an hour every evening cooped up at desks in a room in the boarding establishment, doing homework. I'd finished doing mine, and rather than stare blankly at the same little exercise book for the rest of the hour, I decided to read a book. There was an invigilator stalking the room, as ever, this one a visiting minister (one of the few visitors the system ever had!) and he tapped me on the shoulder and said: not allowed, you know that, you have to do homework!
The next morning, shortly after we had to get up, I was called into the housemaster's room and told to bend over a chair. Three mighty, hate-filled blows with a stick. I was twelve. I have detested those people ever since, not becaue of the pain, which was very, not even for the indignity and subsequent shame of yelling my head off, but because of the blind injustice, the idea that the rule was more important than the logic, and the incapability of that invigilator, that "man of God" to see all of that simple thing for himself, his inabilty to have resolved the little matter right there and then in that study room with just a shake of his head and a smile. Never mind the notion that he'd felt compelled to report me; what a set of spiritual priorities!
Yeah, the links to isantity are paper thin.
Rob