This insight also leads to a helpful lesson of just what “having an open mind to a different culture” really means. At bottom, it means having faith in the people who subscribe to the culture—faith that these people are motivated by the same forces as we, that they are not stupid, irrational or innately predisposed to a certain temperament, that whatever they are doing will make sense once we understood the entire circumstance.
Finding food in foreign grocery stores, or finding out that reality has fewer joints than you might think.
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Making sense of unfamiliar legal systems