Reaction to the Barna!

     The text was quite interesting for me to read, because I’m very interested in culture and ethnics. In the text book, it explains about cultural things such as assumption of similarities, culture shocks, and so on. I have been to some countries like the US, European and Asian countries, at that time, I also had many culture shocks there, and sometimes it made me so frustrated. Now I consider about it again I think these were caused by my stereo types or assumption of similarities for these countries. Furthermore, I was a person who thinks that “people are people”, it means that people are all the same. I didn’t even care about culture and their backgrounds at that time, however, after I communicated with many foreigners from all over the world, I was changed my mind, and noticed that people are all the same, but they all have their own culture and different backgrounds. As Barna states that it is really important to understand and also get along with people in the world each person has his or her own culture and background. Otherwise, we might get some conflicts or misunderstanding when we meet people from different countries. To avoid these situations, we would better to understand the differences between people and people, that make world more peaceful, I think.