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My Point-of-View on World Events Has Changed

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I got my certification in Secondary Social Studies, coming into teaching as a second career from finance and banking. I was raised in a VERY Republican household. As a high school student, I recall my father ranting and raving about “liberal” history professors and journalists.

Since becoming a teacher (starting in University teaching banking and investment classes), getting certified, substituting in Colorado in many Denver-metro area districts, getting divorced, spending a year traveling around-the-world, , teaching for the Denver International School, and then moving with my new Middle-Eastern husband to the Middle East (in 1993), I have changed a LOT of opinions.

After you are outside of the United States (or your own country) for six months to a year, you begin to see what outsiders see about your own country. After a few years outside, you can look at events inside your country with two sets of eyes. One set sees and understands events as only an insider in your own country can, while the other set sees events there through the eyes of outsiders. Through these experiences, I have come to different points of view than I was raised with.

Eileen

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3 Comments on “My Point-of-View on World Events Has Changed”

  1. Mrs. C Says:

    February 9, 2009 at 2:56 am

    Hey, wow. After living in Australia, I could tell you that the folks there were wayyyy more conservative than they were back home LOL!

    I guess it depends on which country you go to. And being prepared for that very idea of what a “liberal” and “conservative” would be to change. A lot.

    :]

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    • elementaryteacher Says:

      February 9, 2009 at 8:59 pm

      Mrs. C,

      I’m curious to know what part of Australia you were in, during which years, and if it was a rural community (generally more conservative), or if it was an urban community. How did you happen to go there, how long were you there, and what did you do while there?

      Eileen

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  2. An alien Earthling Says:

    February 15, 2009 at 5:26 pm

    My point of view has changed a lot as well, not due to extensive world travel, but because of the internet. Due to this great invention of the late twentieth century, I came to know how my country and its systems are viewed by others, but more importantly, by the marginalised, oppressed and discriminated people in my own country :-(

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