facilitate the understanding of CULTURALCARE.
It is a way to witness and learn about cultural diversity and the New America and to erase fears of the unknown social and cultural phenomena that may impede your ability to embrace the demographic changes occurring in the United States today and to embrace the vitality and excitement of change, for, as Stegner looks to the “wild country,” one can look to the streets of a city or town and successfully realize that “this is a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures,” a part of the geography of American LIFE!
Needed: a good street map, a good bus map, comfortable walking shoes, comfortable clothing, personal identification, and small amount of money for trans- portation, water, and food. There is no need to pack a lunch; restaurants are more than plentiful. And, of course, the greatest importance is a good sense of humor and adventure.
Indeed, the study of cultural diversity comes alive the moment you leave the confines of the classroom and go out into the community. This is the way to appre- ciate a given ethnoreligious community. It is extraordinary to go into a community and observe firsthand what daily life is like for a member of the community. The