A specific time in where I anticipated another outcome was during my interaction with a group partner that was younger than me. I originally thought hat this exercise would be very uneventful and not challenging simply because I didn’t think, because of his age, he would be able to contribute anything that I hadn’t already thought of. I had thought that logically since I was older I would posses all that was needed for this exercise and that since he was younger his education would only encompass what I had already known. This obviously didn’t work out that well and later found that he actually did know several things I didn’t and had a lot more to offer than I ever could have imagined. Being Asian my cultural mindset is placed on the idea that elders know more and that you need to respect them. I believe that this was a gross over stretch of this cultural idea and it wasn’t entirely correct.
Many Chinese people have the same mindset, and they think that young people should listen to elders who have more experiences. I think that it's right to respect elders, but it does not mean that younger people should always agree with elders because elders may not know everything and their knowledge may not work in new situations.
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