Does expatriation opens our mind ?

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Let’s think again about

Does expatriation open our mind ?

Some of you may know my motto by now:

Expatriation doesn’t create anything that isn’t within us already

Expatriation reveals what is ready to be revealed in us and when it is ready to be revealed

So, last week, I was at a meeting about how does the settling process work for expatriates; the pluses and the minuses.

Came the point which stated that : 

Being an expatriate opens our mind to the difference.

Hummmm; I do not think this is that straightforward

Like any big change, and I do think moving and changing one’s cultural environment is a big change,  expatriating creates a new chemistry we will have to adapt to. 

Some of our personality traits become more important and some others will regress. 

All of that, more or less temporarily.

No, our personality isn’t still like a lake, but more changing like the sea, depending on the ‘weather’. 

And we will all change in different ways at different pace.

Some of us will be naturally prone to being open minded.  And then, at one (probably more) point in our life may be less or won’t be at all.

And some of us aren’t naturally particularly open minded and become more, as being exposed to the difference; 

Expatriation being a big one.

Nurture and nature: the big and endless debate ! 

Both nourish our who we are, being successively more or less significant

For being open minded, one thing is sure: we have to feel secure. 

We need to be in a state where we feel we are accepted, recognized and loved.

The opposite state leads us to close up and feel we and our beliefs are the last secure island where to be: this is a phase we all go through in expatriation, it sometimes become a frozen state.

But let’s realize that it is then a way for the person to secure themselves.  No need to judge or to feel angry about it; it has to be respected. Would we judge someone who use a fireproof cover when facing a fire ?

I have seen expatriates developing like a new sense of being: feeling, accepting and using very naturally the social codes which aren’t their owns.

 I also have met people who became so close up that they were intolerant and systematically judging negatively a targeted culture or any culture other than theirs.

So all in all, I would say that expatriation provokes the conditions to allow a person to become more open minded : yes.

Will everybody become more open minded ? No.

Do you agree or disagree ?

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