Douglas Murray recalls a conversation with someone who admitted that when he was little he thought vanilla was just the base of ice cream, with no flavour of its own but existed to have flavours added to it.
As an adult he realised vanilla was a delicious flavour in its own right. And we fall into the trap of thinking our English-speaking…
Douglas Murray recalls a conversation with someone who admitted that when he was little he thought vanilla was just the base of ice cream, with no flavour of its own but existed to have flavours added to it.
As an adult he realised vanilla was a delicious flavour in its own right. And we fall into the trap of thinking our English-speaking cultures have no culture, like this misconception of vanilla.
When we live abroad we realise there are infinite wonderful things about our own cultures that are not universal, and we may have completely taken for granted. We are just blinded to them through not knowing anything different.
Douglas Murray recalls a conversation with someone who admitted that when he was little he thought vanilla was just the base of ice cream, with no flavour of its own but existed to have flavours added to it.
As an adult he realised vanilla was a delicious flavour in its own right. And we fall into the trap of thinking our English-speaking cultures have no culture, like this misconception of vanilla.
When we live abroad we realise there are infinite wonderful things about our own cultures that are not universal, and we may have completely taken for granted. We are just blinded to them through not knowing anything different.