Travel certainly changes people. But it depends on your openness to new ideas. Some travelers expect to find their own country in a different place - these people will not be altered by travel. However if you consider travel as an exercise in adaption to other peoples’ ways of life, then it certainly will challenge some of the axioms that were instilled in you from a young age by your society.
Why can't you find your country in a different one?because you are supposed to stay put and true to your country that luck decided for you and obey some societal rule?