American Ways

Why do we have to ‘prepare’ foreigners to visit our country? By providing a book about American ways, alone, we are setting ourselves up for destruction. It is admitting to the fact that our way of living and our take on things are very different from any other country and that to survive or be accepted, one had better learn about and/or change to accommodate for ‘our ways.’ Of course we are different; no country is alike. Is a book detailing the differences really necessary though? I remember wishing there was a book titled British Ways before I left the states to study abroad in London, and maybe there is something similar out there, but thank God I did not find and/or read it. I would have been so intimidated and would have thought that I needed to change myself in order to be accepted or to fit into another culture. That is what American Ways is doing; the book seems to be a manual that all visitors to our country should read in order to operate efficiently.
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