Different Cultures

Our new unit in class is discussing different cultures. It's so cool how different all of the world's societies are. A big difference in culture is hand gestures. In the Western world a gesture means one thing and in another culture it can be completely different. I think it'd be awesome to travel to other countries and experience the way they live their lives. Even though it would be hard to adjust at first, I think it would be well worth it. We talked about the types of toliets that are in other countries. In Japan the toliets are very low to the ground and you need to squat to use them. Americans think that is so strange but we need to let go of our ethnocentric perspective in order to see it is just normal life for the Japanese.