Tolerance

Not being afraid to ask questions was actually a thing I learned is very important for the sake of being tolerant. At least I think so. Simply to be curious. Maybe to a certain extend. Why are things like they are here? To show your interest. Because can you really call youself tolerant just watching? Isn't that just being ignorant? Think that you accept things but actually you just don't know about them.

When you travel you will no matter what challenge yourself in many ways. Especially your tollerance whether you like it or not. In this class we talked about culture-shoc. I will watch to claim that there is a relationship between the tendency of getting a culturechok and your capasity of tolerance. I don't know if that's true but I would like to tell a bit from my own experience. I see my self as a very tolerant person. I have travelled a bit here and there. The most different cultures from my own I have experienced were probably Vietnam, India and Cuba. Of cause I experienced a lot of things which I'm not used to at all from Denmark. The mentality, culture and view of life were very inspiring! But also very different. But when we learned about Tolerance and Culture-shoc in this class I thought it sounded like that you SHOULD have a culture-shoc but I never really think that I got one. Even though I mingled a lot with both the Vietnamese, Indian and Cuban people and learned a lot from them. Then I thought: Well, is that because I'm ignorant? Either I'm ignorant or very tolerant :-) I will of cause like to go for the last statement. On my travel to Vietnam I travelled in a big Danish group. My experience was that the members in this group was very critical and harsh on the Vietnamese and their culture. Sometimes i even thought they were directly insolent and I actually got very embarressed sometimes of how they treated the people who they were actually guests of. I thik it is very important to respect differences especially when you are visiting a new country with a different culture.