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Understanding Culture Blindness

Posted on February 3, 2019August 1, 2019 by Chris Kincaid

A fish doesn’t notice water. You can’t see the forest for the trees. Whenever I visit Amish country, as we call the areas where the Amish live, I’m struck by how a group I’m familiar with can seem foreign to others. If you don’t know, the Amish is a religious group that eschews owning technology…

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