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Sam Farr: “I was commenting that one of the unique feelings we all had was that each of us had the ability to live in a minority in…”

On the recordJuly 11, 1995
I was commenting that one of the unique feelings we all had was that each of us had the ability to live in a minority in another land and learn another language and learn another culture, and essentially be able to really understand what it is like to be outside of our own culture and our own values, because I think in order to educate people and bring them into changing behavior patterns that may have been in existence for hundreds of years, behavior patterns that might not have been good health, sanitary conditions, or nutritional habits, that you really have to be a part of them in order to bring that about. That learning that other culture, that other language, and the language I learned in Spanish, they say with every language comes a second soul.
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Sam Farr
Democratic · California

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Discussing the importance of cultural understanding in changing behavior patterns.

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