If you want to hear a powerful message about broadening your understanding of other people and cultures, you may very well find this lecture very thought-provoking and life changing:
“The danger of a single story. Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.”
http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story
I agree with this message, for me it is absolutely real. We cannot forget that on the past we were just the same group of people that lived together, like in Medieval Era. So, if you judge a person based only on a single argument about your cultural habit, you are not worried about what happened in the past for nowadays, and it is very important.
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