Our daily lives are very much shaped by our culture. This is the way we learn how to live. The people around us that are part of this culture learn how to live the same way and this slowly becomes collective. Everybody lives in the same sort of way. There are many influences such as the media and just general attitudes of people that develop over time. People that learn to live in the same environment are naturally going to have the same habits, beliefs, and barriers that keep them living the same way. Being multicultural and getting along interculturally is very difficult, but it is not impossible.
If you are in the same area with the same type of people, it is only natural that you may become ethnocentric or think your culture is more elite than others. This is becuase you will have no reason to think differently. The only way to break barriers interculturally is to become exposed to different ways of life. Be open to the fact that not the all groups of people see the world in the same way. Knowing about the attitudes of other cultures and being aware of their history is very important to communicating interculturally. In order to do this, people must be open minded.
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