The Importance of Appreciating Culture

I just recently needed to take an essay test that focused on experiences with different cultures and appreciating the differences between different cultures from our own. This specific topic caught me off guard because most people from my side of the state don't usually get a lot of experience with different cultures and I found it interesting that it is so extremely important to future employers that their prospective employees not only have experience with other cultures, but appreciate them to a great degree as well.

I found it particularly necessary to write about this in a blog entry because this pertains a lot to what we are learning in class, in my opinion. I feel that one of my goals in this class is to better understand and appreciate differences between cultures a lot better than I do right now. I also feel that a lot of what we are learning has a message about appreciating different cultures and not just the literature that different cultures publish.

So to connect the essay topic to class, I felt that this essay was almost like a test to see how much I have learned in this class so far about appreciating differences between cultures in comparison to my own. I think I did a pretty good job!