What have you learned by living abroad?

Tolerance of others

plenty, I become more dependent, life become more interesting, learned how to control things by myself and most especially life is nothing without believing with God.

I've learned to appreciate different cultures and respect its laws.

Learning of other nationalities culture.

respect each other...

I know I knew nothing.

Patience, tolerance and respect of culture and people.

i learned a lot...not only from living abroad...but from daily issues also..

but, i learned that : I need a long time to remember all those important words in many different languages

about myself and others, about learning to be human being!

I learned that it takes time to adapt to other people's culture and it pays to be open minded.  Yes, the media blows things out of proportion, they can make you fearful when there's nothing to fear.

stumpy wrote:

Tolerance of others

I agree with Stumpy on this....

respecting the culture,Patience,and trying to find were ppl come from in order for a better understanding.

you are one person.
there are six billion more!

I've learned that Chinese food in China is nothing like Chinese food outside of China.

HaileyinHongKong wrote:

I've learned that Chinese food in China is nothing like Chinese food outside of China.

For you it is all about food?

I came from Canada, a very multi-cultural country. I've learned even more about different cultures by living abroad and learned it's or differences that make us special.

I've also learned that the more different we seem to be on the surface (because of our cultures), the more similar we really are when you take a closer look.

Cheers,
William James Woodward - Brazil Animator, Expat-blog Team