Managing your relation with others may be great barriers for those how does not have the ability to do such thing, During our discussions during class I started to realize that our attitudes towards other people may also affect our own way of being. On Unit 3, where we had to find ourselves as either well related or not. Attitudes surely influence other people, especially when they are not the ones we were supposed to do. .
It is wonderful that we have developed the ability to mingle with and enjoy the company of people from diverse backgrounds. This is a skill that many people do not posses; it is a skill that will be immensely valuable for your personal and professional future. Our comfort in a different setting reflects self-assurance, maturity, and a clearly defined sense of identify.
Facing this kind of problem may not originate from us specifically. Misunderstanding of, and no acceptance of others who are different are facts of an elemental and, sadly, universal flaw in the human cycle. .
I remind a experience that happened to me a few years ago in Brazil. At my high school in Salvador everyone mingled well. However I noticed that a different but often thing. The people that were born in other states hung out only with people of other states. I am used to hanging out with all sorts if people, but now I felt this tension, as if people of other states were thinking. "Why is he bothering with them?".
During a summer work with some friends from one specific state, I roomed with a Potiguar, which is a state south of Bahia. He strongly advised me to avoid being friends with people from different states. Although I did not feel comfortable with his advice, I did not think we would get judged by all sides when you try to br friends with everybody. Sometimes I felt like I was having an identify crisis. I felt like, "Which side Am I on?".
Even known that we should all be able to relate to other without concerning what side you are on, I felt strange, and the only thing that helped me to get trough this questioning was just follow what I felt was the best for me.