Modern humanity is divided into many different cultures. Cultures that revolve around religion, race, education, geographics, politics, gender, and the list goes on and on and on. Within these cultures exist stereotypes and questions concerning other cultures. We all fall under some sort of cultural classification, and we all know others who classify as another. We question why? There are always inquires from one culture to another.
More than not a person of a culture hesitates to confront one from a different culture just to learn about the other. Instead a person tends to use such resources as the internet. The internet will tell you exactly what you want to hear, there is no system to regulate the quality of information across the world wide web. If you want to support your current ideas and opinions of another culture you will find it on the internet, but you will also find opposing views to your personal opinions. Relying on an internet search to answer questions about another culture is truely inefficient.
Friends within cultures are also a common source of information. But how objective is that? That is like asking Wal-Mart about Target. What do you think Wal-Mart would say? I doubt it would be very positive. Maybe you want to know more about Rush Limbaugh, should you ask President Obama? Probably not. The sources of information in these examples have too much invested to be able to answer these questions without biases.
The best way to learn about another culture is to go to that culture and get some answers. They usually know whats going on inside their own culture, because they live it. If you want to know about a religion go to representatives of that religion. If you want to know about a country ask someone of that country. Get the idea? There are so many special agendas represented by anti-this and anti-that groups that finding true and accurate information is becoming evermore difficult. But one thing is still sure, getting information straight from the horses mouth is still the best.
