Question of the day.

Can people with vastly different cultural backgrounds live together peacefully? How?

My answer:

I think absolutely yes! But just as with people with similar cultural background, the key is to respect each other’s views, opinions, values etc. even if they may be a bit difficult to understand for one another if their cultures are really distant from each other and based on totally different mentalities. Though trying to understand each other’s background is also certainly worth the effort, and I’d think must be very enriching and interesting. If they all are actually willing to live peacefully, I don’t see why, with a bit of effort on everyone’s part, that couldn’t be achieved, unless there are also some other factors at play. My Mum often says that in case of multicultural couples, they have more challenges to face, but I think it’s more like their challenges are just different, and am not sure if they’re really many more than what monocultural couples have to face. Then again, I’m just talking very theoretically here as, while I know a lot of people online from different places in the world, I’ve never really lived with anyone with a vastly different cultural background.

What do you think? 🙂