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What are some life lessons you've learned in your own way?
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I've traveled to 50 countries and lived in three. People are basically good, but the media shouters will try very hard to convince you otherwise.
Currently, there are a fair amount of people trying to convince us that Iran is the enemy. Yes, their culture has its issues. But it doesn't really work when the 5 Iranians I personally know are some of the nicest people you will meet.
Our differences are far smaller than the things that unify us.
I haven't been to that many and I won't say I've been to the other end of the spectrum. But, having been to other corners of the square, I've found that people are the same. There are wildly different cultural norms that can certainly be misconstrued as rude or invasive, but damn, the baseline human experience is so common.
We all think we need more money. We all know lots of people worse off. We all know several better off. We all celebrate births, marriages, and deaths. We all feed our guests to excess (not you, whichever Scandinavian country it is that makes guests wait in the other room while you have dinner). We all make liquor from anise.
The thing I've noticed is people who don't have much, don't really care if everyone around is the same. When they see others who are better off, suddenly they become dissatisfied.
It is same for everyone not just poor (instagram exists)
Moreover, we were like this even in 2000 BC