“I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.” - Mahatma Gandhi
After having been a world away from home for six months now, traveling around the middle east and southeast Asia, I’ve learned many things. Something that has really grown in me is my awareness of the different cultures around the world and my knowledge of how important each one of them is to the people in them. Culture creates a sense of belonging in the people throughout the world and can make an outsider or uninformed traveler feel left out or naive. Culture is about community, throughout my travels, it has become apparent that although many things can get lost in translation between people speaking different languages other than their mother tongues to communicate as well as people misinterpreting social ques specific to different cultures in interactions. However, how is it that humans can still generally love or if not love each other, generally seem to respect one another with basic human decency. It seems that has been taught in every culture I’ve experienced at varying levels.
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