Having lived in another country for several years was an eye opening experience for us as a family. To be the ones in the minority to some degree was a bit of a new experience to say the least. It came as a bit of shock to the senses just like the snow we experienced a few weeks ago (who ever signed off on that should be fired). The shock was not so much about the fact that the “others” around us who were different from us created the dominant cultural reality but that in fact we had a culture ourselves.

The previous may seem like an odd statement to make but the reality is when we are inside of our resident culture we do not readily make an assessment of it as a culture. Further to my point we don’t tend to recognize that we are evaluating the merits…