Global Diversity

Over the years, traveling and living in different countries for months at a time has truly had an impact on my life. The global impact of how people live in one country compared to another is truly interesting as well as humbling. One thing I noticed during my time in Europe was how conservative the people lived. In the states, I was a custom to going to the grocery store maybe twice a week for food and house goods, but in Europe because of the fridge size, I had to go to the store once every week buying only what I needed for that week. Now I’ve seen bigger fridges in Europe, but most people lived this way. Everything was much closer in every country I was in as well, causing most people to ride bikes or walk everywhere. This made me live more conservatively once I got back to the states and appreciate space as things seemed tight at times while living in Europe.  

Global diversity comes into play when language is involved as everywhere I’ve been I’ve ran into language barriers. Not having the ability to communicate is a crippling and isolated feeling that makes you very uncomfortable, especially being in a foreign country. It’s always challenging when you first enter a country, but then you learn to adapt by picking up a few words, remembering where places are and for me building camaraderie playing basketball. Food can be a globally diverse thing as well, as I’ve ran into my fair share of unique eating habits. For example, in central America rice and beans is a food eaten for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Breakfast…..