The other

1.  What are the messages you received at home about “the other”? Were you encouraged to get to know them? Or were you taught to distrust or ignore them?
2. Did you grow up in a neighborhood that was primarily racially, ethnically, economically, religiously homogenous? Or did you grow up in a mixed neighborhood, as you see it?
3. Today, are you more likely to emphasize how others are similar to you, or how you may be different?
4. What has been your experience when you’re in the minority, vs. when you’re in the majority?

How do these questions make you feel? Are the answers what you expected?

Esther Perel 

http://www.estherperel.com/how-to-address-cross-cultural-differences/