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1The sunglasses story
2Imagine that all people in your home country , from the beginning of time , today and forever , were born with two legs , two arms , two eyes , two ears , a nose , a mouth and a pair of sunglasses with yellow lenses .
3No one has ever thought that it is strange that people wear sunglasses all the time . It has always been like that and they are like a part of the human body . Everyone wears them .
4Take off your sunglasses and look at them .
5It is the values , attitudes , ideas that people in your country share which gives the glasses their yellow colour .
6Everything everyone has seen , been taught and experienced has entered the brain through the yellow lenses .
7Everything has been filtered through those values and those ideas which colour the glasses yellow .
8The yellow lenses are your attitudes , your faith , your values and your cultural background .
9Thousands of miles away , in another country , there are people who , from the beginning of time , today and forever , were born with two legs , two arms , two eyes , two ears , a nose , a mouth and a pair of sunglasses with blue lenses .
10No one has ever thought that it is strange that people wear sunglasses all the time . It has always been like that and they are like a part of the human body . Everyone wears them .
11Everything the people in this country have seen , been taught and experienced has been filtered through the blue lenses .
12Once there was a person travelling from your country to the other country . She was smart and understood that if she wanted to learn about the other country and the other people she had to get a pair of blue glasses to be able to “ see ” . When she arrived in the other country she made sure she got a pair of blue glasses . She stayed for three months and felt that she really learned a lot about the other people 's values , faith and ideas . She could really “ see ” with the help of the new blue glasses . When she arrived home in her own country she became an expert on the other country and proudly told a lot of interested listeners that the other culture was green .