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Empathy exposes cultural bias

Understanding one’s own cultural values from the perspective of an outsider helps to accept differences in other cultures. So often exposure to other cultures is immediately followed by judgment. Differences are strange at best, and evil at worst. For example, when an Anglo, who values personal space, is exposed to an Arab, who values close proximity, there’s a tendency to condemn their practice as barbarian, or to pity them (Livermore).…