Benefits of rooming with someone from a different culture

Thinking About roommates for next year?  Consider the many benefits of rooming with someone with a different cultural perspective:

• Expand your understanding of people with different ways of seeing the world.

• Sharpen your communication skills.

• Grow in your skills in being more culturally sensitive.

• Be more prepared to live and work in our global society.

• By exposing yourself to people from other cultural perspectives, you better understand your own culture.

• You have something to share and that others need.  Remember, expressing your perspective is as important as learning other’s perspectives.

• Consider how God might use you or speak to you through a roommate from a different cultural perspective.

• Develop a relationship with someone outside your comfort zone.  This relationship could be life long.

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