Culture to me seemed like such a simple topic. After all, we all grew up learning about the different components to culture, such as different customs, language, social conducts, etc. But it never occurred to me how many different components to culture there was. The importance of cultural relativism also seems like it's pretty "common sense" as it's good to be aware of other cultures, but at many times it's easier said than done. When I went to the D.R., the first car ride I experienced there was anything but ordinary here. What would be viewed as a more here (cutting people off, honking excessively, not slowing down at local areas) was viewed as the typical way to drive. Dominicans are used to driving with much lenient laws than us in the U.S., and if not for the numerous speed bumps, speed wouldn't even be regulated. You also saw other mores being broken when people even came out of one car and went into another in the middle of the street! And like I said, even though I thought I knew what it meant to be mindful of other cultures, even I was relieved when we went to the beach and saw that it was "normal" in our standards in the U.S. (as we were pre-warned that there could have been some nudity). Even in Korean culture within the U.S., there's different folkways that are broken. For example, typically when you greet someone in public, you don't bow, but for me having been grown up in a tradition Korean family, my first instinct is to bow to any Korean grown-up I meet. And it becomes awkward for me when I meet Korean adults who are more second generation and don't follow the same cultural folkway.