Summary and response – Getting to Know about You and Me

Summary

The article Getting to Know about You and Me is a story about a Jewish girl. Once she had an opportunity to take apart in National Science Foundation Young Scholar program in the University of Wisconsin at Superior. She quickly made friends with other students from other school and had a good time. Students in their group had different backgrounds, and they represented eight religions. Everyone was curious about other’s backgrounds and their religions. They discussed with others through the knowledge that they had already known or their own opinions. Sometimes they did not deliberately offend the author, but she still got hurt from them. The worst of all, one of the professors did something ignorant to her and made her uncomfortable. She had an astounding experience. She thought respecting other culture was an important thing. People could learn more about other knowledge and understand them. As a result, people could avoid being threatened by others. Ignorance may bring about some problem like misunderstandings or prejudice. She decided to tell about her religion on the religious holiday. She wanted to share about her story with everyone and make them more understand the Jewish.

Response

After reading the article Getting to Know about You and Me, written by a sixteen-year-old Jewish girl, I learn many things and ask myself if I had the same experience or I had done the same thing to others. There are many kinds of people all over the world. We may have different cultures, religions, colors of skins or languages. Sometimes we would judge others because they are different from us. We may offend them because of our misunderstandings. It will be ok if others do not mind. However it may be a problem if others take it seriously. Although we usually ignore others, we can learn how to avoid being rude. We learn how to respect each other and learn more from them. Totally accepting other cultures is difficult, but we can appreciate them and shared our viewpoints with them.
There are various people all over the world, so that it makes our world more colorful. Everyone has its own story. We can participate in the activities of other culture to understand them. We learn their advantages to improve ourselves. The most important thing is that we should respect each other. As the saying goes, “Do not do to others what you do not want to be done to you.” If we respect others, then they will also respect us. It can make the world better.