Flowings of Your Everlasting Taffyman

a follow up on something from that last post... i wont explain the situation just this:
You don't have to give up your morals, interests, personality, culture etc to enjoy experience or respect other cultures. All you have to do is give up your preconceived notions that your ways are better.
You don't have to have sex with a prostitute in Amsterdam, nor smoke or do drugs or drink just because its legal, or its the cool thing to do.
You don't have convert to Catholicism to enjoy a church or church service, or wear the veil and pray 5 times a day to enjoy a mosque.
You don't have to slaughter a goat or sheep to respect a Sheppard.

It doesn't hurt to do these things, unless it hurts who you are, if it means compromising your beliefs and values then don't do it.. respectfully decline.
"experiencing another culture" in its entirety is a myth, you can do your best, but you will still have natural biases because you are from another culture.. and that's OK, enjoy the differences, enjoy the fact that other people believe differently, eat, speak, dance, pray, express, relate, act, live differently, and in seeing that... remember that they are still eating speaking dancing praying expressing relating acting and living as you are.