Cultural Exchange

In all our blog posts we have talked about our project, but in this post I would like to look in to who we are as a group and add on to the dimension on what we are actually gaining from this course. In our group we are 20 people from 7 different countries in the age between 20-31 years. We have both Christians and Muslims and of course different sub religions from these two. We also have people who are none religious. We go to school together and besides that we also all live together under the same roof, a lot of us even in the same room. We prepare dinner together, we watch TV together, we eat together - in short we do almost everything together. The result of all this is a lot of cultural exchange. We have had a lot of interesting conversations about religion, homosexuality, manners, traditions etc. I think that in the process of this course we learn a lot about each others cultures and I think through this we actually also learn a lot about our own culture. The reason for posting this blog is a thought I got from thinking about this cultural exchange, that maybe in social change a key word should be exchange, wether it is culture, knowledge or other aspects, because I think in learning about others we can learn more about our selves and our backgrounds and through this knowledge we can learn our strengths and weaknesses.