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I don't know about you, but seeing and experiencing other countries and cultures is always fascinating to me. I visit a couple of tourist spots, but I also like to try to disappear into the crowd and really experience the culture on a base level. I have naturally dark skin and hair, so I was able to do that a few times in Turkey. Apparently I had most Turks convinced I was a turk as well, because lots of them would come up to me and start babbling in Turkish. I was able to get by through reading body language and replying with the same. Although it is a bit dangerous to go off alone in a foreign country, I treasured those times as great learning experiences. I met Turks, Kurds and Iraqi refugees and got to learn their culture fairly well.

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"Just as a man who has fallen into a heap of filth ought to seek the great pond of water covered with lotuses, which is near by: even so seek thou for the great deathless lake of Nirvana to wash off the defilement of wrong. If the lake is not sought, it is not the fault of the lake."