I agree with your quotation, Marilyn! And further, it is only in engaging other cultures that we are even aware of aspects of our own. So this is a constant, ongoing aspect of our lives: noticing the “other” and so reflecting on our own mental furniture and viewpoints. Like a fish in water, we are unconscious of some of our most deeply held cultural “truths” until we are brought, gasping for our familiar environment, onto the shores of another heritage.
Marilyn R. Gardner 
I agree with your quotation, Marilyn! And further, it is only in engaging other cultures that we are even aware of aspects of our own. So this is a constant, ongoing aspect of our lives: noticing the “other” and so reflecting on our own mental furniture and viewpoints. Like a fish in water, we are unconscious of some of our most deeply held cultural “truths” until we are brought, gasping for our familiar environment, onto the shores of another heritage.
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