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Salient: An organ of student opinion at Victoria University, Wellington. Vol. 23, No. 3. Monday, April 11, 1960

Cultural

Cultural

He has lived in a social and cultural atmosphere totally different from ours. His whole mode of thought is often different; his ideas of friendship, hospitality, family life, recreation and, in many cases, worship, are different from ours. His language is different. He will very likely have grown up under the threat of acute social disturbances. Thus he may be more aware of the real needs and desires of people and of the opposing political systems offering satisfaction to those needs than the New Zealand student is.