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Visit a cultural center, interfaith dialogue or spend an afternoon with someone of another culture/religion/ethnicity to learn more about that world view.

Summarize briefly what you did and what you learned from it. There is no length requirement for your write-up, but you must fully describe your activity and explain how it truly is a cultural immersion experience. Then, analyze how this experience has changed or enhanced your understanding of the culture in question by deconstructing the views and opinions you held before completing the cultural immersion activity. Your analysis should address how and why those views have changed as a result of the knowledge acquired through this experience.

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Discusses cultural diversity and cultural immersion.

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First and foremost I must implore that YOU take my rendition in gist and only use it as a blueprint for how to analyze YOUR OWN experience with a person from a different cultural.

The person I will summarize is my Haitian friend whom I had the pleasure of meeting in July of 2011. Haiti has a long history and although I am also of African Ancestry as are the Haitian people I still was oblivious to the cultural differences between me and my ...

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