Understanding A People's Culture Exposes Their Normalness

I Had A Hard Time Convincing Students That They Were Going To North Africa To Understand The North Africans, Not To Understand Themselves.

We Don't Know What We Think Until We See What We Say.

I Never Leave A Sentence Or A Paragraph Until I'm Satisfied With It

To See Ourselves As Others See Us Can Be Eye-opening. To See Others As Sharing A Nature With Ourselves Is The Merest Decency. But It Is From The Far More Difficult Achievement Of Seeing Ourselves Amongst Others, As A Local Example Of The Forms Human Life Has Locally Taken, A Case Among Cases, A World Among Worlds, That The Largeness Of Mind, Without Which Objectivity Is Self-congratulation And Tolerance A Sham, Comes.

The North African Mule Talks Always Of His Mother's Brother, The Horse, But Never Of His Father, The Donkey, In Favor Of Others Supposedly More Reputable.