There’s really no better way to understand differences in culture across countries than being physically immerse in the environment. Spend some time with the locals, try out their cuisines, learn their language, and simply just observe them in their own backyard. And be open to the possibility that many of our pre-conceived notions about others are simply wrong or not entirely accurate.
So much of our perception of others are influenced by the media, by the noisy minority that manage to capture our attention, but they are not usually representative of the whole nation or society. This is one of the great benefits of travelling – finding out for yourself how others are really like. Are they as different as we thought?
Ironically, we will find many differences in some of our beliefs and habits, but we will also find that we are also very much the same. We share many similar human values. At the end of the day, we are the same, just that we grew up in different environments.
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