Accepting Differences

Accepting Differences People enjoy traveling around the world in search of new beginnings, new identities, understanding different cultures, so on and so forth. Everyone benefits from local sightseeing, visiting places of interest, savoring local cuisine, or understanding different traditions, when you’re on a holiday. Then there are those who choose to shift base to live in another country, other than your hometown base, and may do so for a considerable length of time or perhaps for a longer while.

As individuals’, who’ve been raised in a particular manner, but pretty much get the opportunity to mingle with people of different ethnicities, may or may not understand or accept cultural mannerisms of another person. This may occur if you’ve been raised elsewhere other than your local hometown. You come across, regularly, different origins of people, different mindsets, different religious faiths, etc. Should an individual’s ethnicity be difficult to accept?? Ask yourself this question…How difficult is it to accept cultural, ethnic, and / or religious differences?? And why??

As a part of an employment contract requirement, if you’ve been asked to carry out a task in a particular ‘local’ manner, the kind that perhaps sounds and feels ridiculous to ‘your local understanding and mindset’, should you excuse yourself out of that situation? Or should you be a part of the other culture? What would you consider before making that choice??

The choices you make are those you have to live with. To accept a different culture is to understand it very calmly. ‘Calm, is probably another word for ‘patience’. Something that’s difficult to accept? YES. Impossible to accept? NO. So why is it difficult to accept another’s way of life differently to yours? Ask yourself that one particular question to understand the worth of accepting another culture. Think about your situation in this regard, very deeply, slowly, calmly, and without arguing even with yourself about it.

If you infer that you find it extremely difficult to accept those cultural differences, remember the problem is yours. Nobody around you is ‘in your way’. ‘You’ are in your way. All you need to do is take all the time in the world to figure out your situation for yourself and where you stand with it. This is something only ‘you’ can and have to do in the privacy of your ‘mind’ without external help. As always, everyone has an opinion on what and how something or someone should and /or shouldn’t be understood. Dealing privately with your ‘imaginary mind boggling cultural issues’, is something your conscience with guide you to follow, in spite of those cultural ‘differences’ staring in your face. Fighting those differences will only worsen your stance as an individual. Life goes on…