“To describe this process of getting acquainted with people, with a culture different from our own is to recognize the experience as liberalizing. We are all limited in our understanding of our own conduct and that of our neighbors because we see everything by the preconceptions offered by our own culture. It is a task of education to provide a viewpoint from which the educated person may free himself from the limitations of these preconceptions.We are all islanders to begin with. An acquaintance with another culture, a real and deep acquaintance, is a release of the mind and the spirit from that isolation. It is to learn a universal language.”
-Robert Redfield, Chicago anthropologist
I can do whatever I want to do--be whoever I want to be. So what happens if I don't know what I want?
The possibilities are endless.
Well, don't you think that's just a little bit exorbitant?
There are so many options that I feel limited...
trapped inside my own.
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