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Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Cultural Viewpoint

When you move, your viewpoint moves. It is obvious that if you move your viewpoint physically, your object looks in a different way. If you move one step aside, what you see shows you another facet. What happens, if you move your viewpont culturally? When you move geographycally, you may see different nature and culture. Seeing another culture doesn't mean you are seeing things in a culturally different way. Stay in another culture for a while and go back home afterward, and you may see your own culture in a new way. This is what I want to call moving one's viewpoint culturally. It should be an aftermath to see things in a culturally different way. You must have moved your viewpoint culturally during the stay in another culture. The question is how the process have made its way. That is how your cognition has been changed. We see things in a culturally biased way, and would never realize our bias unless we encounter another culture.

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