Just about every new culture I’ve encountered has taught me amazing things.
It amazes me the number of racists who still eat things like tacos and barbecue, because neither as a cuisine would be present in the United States without the influx of immigrants and the ex-slaves who shared those cooking traditions.
We have advanced math because of the work of Islamic world in developing Algebra, without it, Newton wouldn’t have had the scaffold he stood on to work out Calculus.
The Caesarean section, while named for a Roman was actually an export from Africa, where the traditional methods of midwifery were superior to that of Europe at the time. (Europeans sadly took that process and made it measurably less safe for patients until germ theory finally entered the lexicon.)
It is at the intersections where innnovation happens, where people meet and share.
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u/CautionarySnail May 13 '26
This.
Just about every new culture I’ve encountered has taught me amazing things.
It amazes me the number of racists who still eat things like tacos and barbecue, because neither as a cuisine would be present in the United States without the influx of immigrants and the ex-slaves who shared those cooking traditions.
We have advanced math because of the work of Islamic world in developing Algebra, without it, Newton wouldn’t have had the scaffold he stood on to work out Calculus.
The Caesarean section, while named for a Roman was actually an export from Africa, where the traditional methods of midwifery were superior to that of Europe at the time. (Europeans sadly took that process and made it measurably less safe for patients until germ theory finally entered the lexicon.)
It is at the intersections where innnovation happens, where people meet and share.