Why everyone should embrace an open mind with other cultures?

That exchange of cultures brings knowledge and opens minds, it also brings learning from each other and helps understand the reasons behind specific behaviors that are part of our cultures. We use all those cultural exchanging experiences to create our own understanding of an event.

Why we should be more open-minded?

Being more open-minded means enjoying some useful and powerful benefits. Open-mindedness helps you: Gain insight. Challenging your existing beliefs and considering new ideas can give you fresh insights about the world and also teach you new things about yourself.

Who are open-minded people?

Characteristics of Open-Minded People They are curious to hear what others think. They are able to have their ideas challenged. They think about what other people are thinking. They are humble about their own knowledge and expertise. They want to hear what other people have to say.

Are Americans more open-minded than Europeans?

The USA is more of a melting pot, though, which leads to open-mindedness regarding things like food. I think the openminedness of Americans varies quite a bit. A little bit too much to say that they are more open-minded than Europeans. In some aspects they are extremely open, such as business and new technologies.

Are Americans really Europeans?

Similarly, we could say that Americans (in the U.S.) are not simply “Europeans.” In the U.S., Anglo-Saxons mixed with the Irish, Germans and Scandinavians, groups that used to be considered separate “races” within Europe in earlier times, as the historian Nell Irvin Painter tells us in her 2011 work The History of White People.

Are “Europeans” a race?

Inside the ballroom full of hundreds of people, Spencer proceeded to speak. He said America “belonged to white men,” and kept repeating that he was a “European,” equating “Europeans” with the “white race.” After he said this about four times, I could not hold back and yelled out, “Europeans are not a race.”

Is ‘European’ a substitute for white?

The latest one is “alt-right” leader Richard Spencer’s use of “European” as a substitute for white. On Dec. 6 I attended Spencer’s controversial talk at Texas A&M University, where I teach political theory and ethics. Most of my colleagues joined the boycott of his visit and were part of the large protest group that rejected his hate speech.