This world is not my home
May 8th, 2008
Is it possible to spam your own blog? I’m not sure, but I’ll try anyway. 
I have a new project.
People who move away from their country or culture of origin to live in another culture for any amount of time will understand what I say when I comment that this is a wonderful, life changing, and sometimes difficult experience. Cross cultual living requires adaptation, a sense of humor, and will cause a person to grow, often in unanticipated ways.
If you have experienced this sort of thing and tried to share your new insights with others who have not, you may have found them to be a bit less excited about your ideas than you had expected. They didn’t mean to frustrate or hurt you, or anything else, they just didn’t understand what you were saying or where you were coming from.
I have started a small niche forum for people who, like me, either live in a culture other than the one that they were born in or that issued their passport, or that have done so previously. If that sounds interesting to you, check it out at http://thisworldisnotmyhome.com/ and see what you think.
If you are not interested, that’s okay. I now return you to your regularly scheduled blog reading and promise not to interrupt further with news on this project (unless, of course, the positive response is truly overwhelming).
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1. ayenack | May 12th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Emm.
I meet people from different cultures everyday in my line of work, people from, Africa, Jamaica, Russia, Poland, Albania, Bulgaria, Australia, South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and loads & loads more places around the world and I have to say with each new person I meet I learn something new. It might be a characteristic of an individual culture (don’t let anyone tell you they don’t exist) or an individuals insight into a certain circumstance but with each person I meet I seem to gain a new insight into life.
The other day I was having a discussion with a friend from Nigeria (Tosan) we were talking about the UK and the state of social welfare and crime in the UK yada yada yada…. I was saying that I was depressed with the way things were going over here and that I was thinking of moving to Ireland in the near future. I was surprised by his strong defence of the UK government and the UK in general in terms of of it being an open and accepting society. Later that day I had a discussion with my brother and explained how Tosan had defended the country so adamantly and he said something to me that will stay with me for the rest of my days “everyone comes to their own truth” it’s such a simple statement but, it’s true.
I will go no further to explain this statement and what it meant to me other than to say it’s so true to me.
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