A Canadian in Beijing: Being Light

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5-28-2007 @ 7:45AM

Karen said...

I am also enjoy reading about your blog and reading about your varied experiences. I know several people teaching in China and it is fascinating.

However, I also have no problem with people making value judgments about various behaviors. Yes, we can learn from other cultures but that doesn't make everything equal. Some things are better, some worse and some just different without being better or worse. Some ideas we can just appreciate, others we can dismiss and others we can embrace and adopt to our own lives. All of those are acceptable responses to new cultures and people are as entitled to these emotions as they are to the idea of embracing all cultural norms.

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