Just yesterday in one of my statistics classes, my professor launched into a small tirade about odds and Americans inability to understand them (unless you're a compulsive gambler). The English, he said, only use odds whereas Americans use probabilities, making communication a little more hairy between collaborators. Not impossible, but just a little slower as both parties have to convert the numbers in order to understand the meaning.
Neither odds nor probability is better than the other. Rather, they offer a different perspective on the same statistic. And that different perspective, a different awareness, is my intention in studying in England. Even though the language appears the same, the culture, and thus the underlying consciousness, colors the meaning and nuances of life.
The definition of culture in Culture Blends is the one I want to experience. "Culture is an awareness, a consciousness, one that reveals the hidden self and opens path to other ways of being." I already know how I live life; how do others?
It is time to change culture from a "distant object into a personal experience."
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