adelethinks

                  Antoine de Saint-Exupery said, “If you differ from me, my brother, rather than do me harm, you enrich me” is an ideal reaction when meeting a foreigner there is an opportunity to learn from other experiences. As the world gets smaller through globalization and migration, the world becomes more heterogeneous in terms of cultures, people, languages, and race which is enriching. The US military like many organizations is successful through leveraging on the diversity of its officers’ skill or languages and recruits from different ethnicity and religion. Although enrichment through the heterogeneity of the world is easily seen in organizations, it is often perceived negatively in some communities. The egoistic nature of some communities regularly driven by self-preservation leads to Xenophobia , as explained by Hurlemann et al (2017), this is partly due to evolution since only through solidarity within one's own group was it possible to survive against unknown a

In most parts of Africa, we seem to be losing certain aspects of all culture, though some will argue that not every part of our culture is great like female circumcision, we have great aspects of our culture that the others can learn from. Culture is usually transferred from generation to generation through the family and the immediate community. You learn how to respect your elders - the Yoruba’s are very good at that, you get introduced to chores at an early age, you learn that when your parent gets old, you will be responsible for their up keep. Yes, In Africa, parents don’t go to nursing homes …. It is one of the “taboos”. I remember when I was assigned my first chore – washing plates for the whole household of about 10. It was like a nightmare, I was miserable, I had to stand on a stool to was so many plates and pots for hours just to do it again on the next meal  ☹ . So, I complained to my best friend who lived nearby and she laughed at me, then she took me to her hou