6 Reasons Of Why You Should Have Diverse Friends

Do you realize that we tend to choose friends who have the same background and culture as us? Well sometimes, it's also necessary to step out from your comfort zone & try something which could make you develop. Having diverse friends would be a great idea! Here comes 6 reasons of why it is important to have friends form different corners of the world!

1. It’s useful to increase your knowledge & experience!

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Having diverse friends could be a chance for you to widen your knowledge and have a multicultural experience. You’ll get to know more about anything from their country. From their traditional food, characteristics of the people, weather, until their education system, would be an interesting information for you to know. You could even ask them to teach you their own language! Cool isn’t it?

2. You’ll be automatically more open and tolerance

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Without you realize or not, you’ll learn to be more open-minded and happily accept new things. Time, religion, culture, and lifestyle differences that you have with your friends, would also make you be more tolerance. Embrace the beauty of diversity with being tolerance start from yourself!

3. You’ll always have stories to look up to!

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Since you & your friend are coming from different places, you’ll be interested to know their stories because it would be twice as fun to listen to! Different culture, daily activities, weather, and many other things will allow you to have plenty to talk about every day. Videos & Photographs always be an interesting thing to see no matter how random & trivial the topic might be. Any important & unimportant random thingy would still make your day a little brighter!

4. When you go abroad, you’ll always have a ‘home’ to come back!

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“A ‘home’ is not always mean a place for you to stay, but a person that would be there with you when you need them the most.”

When you get a chance to go abroad on holiday, your long-distance friend would be an amazing companion to let you know everything about the country rather than having a tour guide by your side!

Visiting beautiful places and having a quality time together would also be a good idea 😊

5. Start to leave the stereotypes and gain many perspectives!

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As your friendship go through, you learn to leave all the stereotypes that you’ve heard from outside. You’ll realize that people from abroad are at some points, different with what usually described on the book, or shown on the movie.

Sharing experience and exchange opinion with them, will hit you with thousands of new perspectives! You can open your eyes through so many different levels. Well, that’s amazing!

6. You’ll learn to appreciate a ‘friendship’.

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Like any relationship, friendship takes work.

From a long-distance friendship that you have, you’ll learn how to maintain the bond with people who are thousand miles away from you. You’ll appreciate them more because even in these long droughts, they’ll still be there when it counts.

Don’t make any differences make you stop being friends with them. Instead, take it as a challenge!

“Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative.” – Rick Warrer

If you have one, you’re cool! If you have more than one, you’re truly blessed! <3