My American Experience

[Continuation of “Coming to the New World…America“. Illustrates how the people perceptions about places varying from their norms put them in a different state of mind, until personal experience and built up knowledge demystify misconceptions.]

It was almost an hour after midnight on January 2nd, 1989, when I took my seat on Air Canada flight from Toronto to Winnipeg. It has been close to thirty hours since I left Cairo. The toll of the trip and the preparation before it has infused into my senses.

In celebrating diversity in corporate America, each month carries a theme of one of our cultures’ components. February is the Black History month, March is Women in Leadership, April is Religious Heritage, May is Asian Heritage, September/October is Hispanic Heritage, and November is American Indian Heritage month. In April 2006, after displaying a video on …

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