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I've only truly learned about people in other places by traveling. Anything else is mostly caricature.
by chrisdone 10y ago
I've only truly learned about people in other places by traveling. Anything else is mostly caricature.
- DonaldFoss 10y agoTry learning foreign languages. To understand a language, one must possess a level of understanding of the underlying culture and history. Then one discovers that dialects arise from a common language with differences in geographic or societal culture and history. Linguistics and etymology are fascinating topics, _almost_ as much fun as building (and test breaking) fault tolerant distributed systems.