Intercultural Competence, we can always use more :-)

The Cultura Project is amazing because it exposes students to other perspectives around the world.  It gives them topics to discuss that may without interaction of residents/citizens of that country be left without actual attitudes and meaning.  I like that in a way it helps open students mind to understand the misscommunications based on different cultural aspects or even life experience.  We all have different traits depending on race, socioeconomic status, where we grew up, who we grew up with, our families, etc.  Even among two sisters that grew up around the same "everything" there may be, for example, different political views.  Now when you change the different aspects you have, such as a new culture, you are most likely to get more differences. I like how this project allows students to view this first hand, without having to leave their country, or even their classroom.