Intercultural Mistake Analysis

1. To me an intercultural mistake is an aberration or confusion in which one person or multiple people lack the knowledge of any one culture to know the "rights" and the "wrongs", whether it may be an action, tone, word, and or symbol. In majority of Indian households kids were trained to remove the shoes before entering the house, whether it may be the garage or patio of the entrance door. As a child I would follow around my parents taking my shoes off at their friends house and so an so forth. As time went along I grew up and gained friends and went to go play whatever at their house. In doing so we walked in and without second thoughts I removed my shoes outside and continued to follow him through his house like it was second nature. After a few hours he asked "hey where are your shoes?", I looked at his feet and in shock and said "outside", mind you we are in his bedroom and he had his shoes on still. He looked at me funny and said "why" but to me i was confused …show more content…
Chimamanda Adichie had repeated the word story countless amounts of times and how any one story shapes our view or perception of one group or person. We as people must not conclude people story off one story we know. Our personal life can not be one story, so how can another be anything less than 100. Like Mark Twain has said "Travel is fatal to prejudice...". If I had not gone to India I personally would not know how beautiful it actually is, same with Mexico, and Jamaica. Ive been to many different place in this world and that quote by Twain correlates well with what Mrs. Adichie had to say. Stereotypes are just one story, the way to change stereotypes is to read the full story, or more stories of any single person or group. Mrs. Adichie manages to coney her message without an ounce of racism, while speaking she admits the times she had stereotyped others. Mrs. Adichie is more then credible to give this Ted Talks, she is not bias in anyway and is aware of her mistakes making her story