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On a trip to India (to outsource my job) a few years ago, I found myself immersed in number of old cultures that I was trying to carefully pigeon hole, in terms of what they believed and why they acted the way they did. I found I was measuring them by my culture and sets of beliefs. And it was getting in the way of my getting to know the people. I decided that it was more important for me to get to know and enjoy the people I was with than to measure their beliefs and systems by my (incomplete) understandings of my own. I wasn’t going to “judge” and “set straight” these belief systems that are thousands of years old, in my 3 month stay. Continue reading →