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How not to be raging mad at your host culture, part 1

When I first arrived in my host culture (and didn’t speak any of the language), I went to a park and immediately everyone started staring at me, little kids pointed at me, and people snapped my picture. I didn’t have my fly down, I wasn’t inappropriately dressed, and I wasn’t doing anything other than beingContinue reading “How not to be raging mad at your host culture, part 1”