Mentoring someone from another country adds a unique perspective that helps develop our cultural sensitivities, which serves us well in our globalized world.
If too few people with that perspective intervene in our angry conversation about our cultural conditioning, our political media will wind up even more horrendous than it is now.
In this perspective, the critical relationship between dialogue and cultural diversity has shifted: cultural diversity is no longer a defender of traditions, and dialogue provides access to the world's cultural resources and has become synonymous with modernization.