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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.

I May Be Able To Spot Arrowheads On The Desert But A Refrigerator Is A Jungle In Which I Am Easily Lost. My Wife, However, Will Unerringly Point Out That The Cheese Or The Leftover Roast Is Hiding Right In Front Of My Eyes. Hundreds Of Such Experiences Convince Me That Men And Women Often Inhabit Quite Different Visual Worlds. These Are Differences Which Cannot Be Attributed To Variations In Visual Acuity. Man And Women Simply Have Learned To Use Their Eyes In Very Different Ways.

The Drive To Learn Is As Strong As The Sexual Drive. It Begins Earlier And Lasts Longer

The Essence Of Cross-cultural Communication Has More To Do With Releasing Responses Than With Sending Messages. It Is More Important To Release The Right Response Than To Send The Right Message.

By Their Very Nature Bureaucracies Have No Conscience, No Memory, And No Mind.