Carry Where You Came From With You
We come from everywhere, crossing cultures to build new communities
and enrich each other’s lives.
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Crossing Cultures: A Perspective on Traveling Through Life
Ever since I opened my first “big kid” textbook in third grade, I’ve been fascinated by one of history’s earliest, ongoing events—the ways we the people of Earth are perpetually crossing cultures and coming together again in shared places.
In airports and train stations, the faces of those arriving and departing reflect every emotion—excitement and curiosity, exhaustion and confusion. Meanwhile, we’re all traveling through life.
Alongside the joys and challenges of this journey, we each carry the need for home, a place to come to and people who want us to be there.
Coming or going, rooted or uprooted, we are all traveling through a world we share.
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