> If you've ever lived in another culture for any significant period of time, as I have, you will realize just how differently two completely rational people can view the same event through different cultural lenses.

The best course on American History that I ever took was taught by an man who had grown up in South America (he was teaching in the US). I first learned a number of interesting ways of thinking about the Americas through because of cultural emphasis that he brought from another part of the world.