The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.

Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough, what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.