Just a note

I find it difficult to share about things that appear shocking to me, because I find that often our mentality as Americans is to separate ourselves from what is different, to view them has not being the same and say “these people have it wrong, or they are so poor and sick, and we will come and help/save them.” I say this as one who constantly is challenged with thinking this myself – a mentality that I have to continually run from. So know when I say things that shock you, or have shocked me, that I don’t mean to say that I am any better, or that America is any better –we are just different, and all cultures/people have faults and beauty. Each must learn from the other and we as Americans must realize that there are things others would be equally shocked about in viewing American culture and lifestyles.