The title lead me to expect an article about seeing through peoples’ foreignness for the person they really are. Going from thinking “they do things in that silly manner because their culture has mislead him and made them insane,” to understanding that they’ve probably never had the chance to question their culture’s ways and they would if you’d give them one.
As an exploration, it would have been of great value to me and, I believe, to the rest of the lesswrong community. We are strange. At some point we’re going to have to start wearing that on our sleeves to be true to ourselves, but we need outsiders to be able to see through our strange practices, to see that we’re not a big crazy cult. If we knew what we’d have to do to look past others’ foreignisms, we’d be better equipped to lead them to do the same for us.
The title lead me to expect an article about seeing through peoples’ foreignness for the person they really are. Going from thinking “they do things in that silly manner because their culture has mislead him and made them insane,” to understanding that they’ve probably never had the chance to question their culture’s ways and they would if you’d give them one.
As an exploration, it would have been of great value to me and, I believe, to the rest of the lesswrong community. We are strange. At some point we’re going to have to start wearing that on our sleeves to be true to ourselves, but we need outsiders to be able to see through our strange practices, to see that we’re not a big crazy cult. If we knew what we’d have to do to look past others’ foreignisms, we’d be better equipped to lead them to do the same for us.
P.S. Please write this article.