Second Entry: What should we do when we are confronted with other cultures?

As technologies and communication methods such as the advent of the internet develop more rapidly than ever before, we have become more prone to facing other cultures even when we did not intend to do so. Exposure to exotic cultures at first could trigger repulsion from it; however, I believe this is not the way we should deal with this issue. However, this is not to say that one should accept every culture just because one wants others to respect his or her culture as well. I believe and understand that one could have prejudices and preconceptions about other cultures with which one is not familiar. I think those discriminations could possibly justifiable if and only if one has a certain set of beliefs that drive one’s behavior. For instance, although I am not a Christian, I firmly believe that it is completely immoral to be cannibalistic. Can you consider humans as a source of food? To me, that is not even a rhetorical question, and that is blatantly against my set of beliefs. I simply can’t understand the notion that one can accept others eating up his or her parents, friends, or relatives. However, even though I do not agree with cannibalism, I do not intend to go find countries who practice that and destroy that culture; this is the maximum degree of which I can show towards those cultures. I do not agree with them, but I won’t deal with them, and rather shut off my ears and eyes because they have their own logic and reasoning that affect their behaviors, and I guess I’ll have to respect that. Therefore, I think when one is confronted with other culture, (yes, one eventually will encounter one with which one completely disagrees with) one can judge their cultures whether or not morally acceptable in their mind, but is not necessarily required, or I’d rather say, preferable if one does not express one’s opinions publicly.