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<\/a><\/p>\nRespect your culture:<\/strong> <\/em>I recall I was pointing at a building or sign and I was informed that its perceived as rude to point at things in Thai culture. Shocking, as its common to point to identify your \u201cpoint\u201d of reference,\u201d but I was more so enlightened to the importance of respecting your culture and doing your best to cultivate the livelihood of your culture by sharing it with others. Your culture is the environment that ultimately cultivates your growth and inherently makes you special; as you explore the world, respect what makes you special and what helped make you special.<\/u><\/p>\nCulture Capsules are an opportunity to share and reflect on my top moments culturally from a selected city, country, or continent each week\u2013curating a glimpse into the culture, the people, the places, and the wisdom.<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of the most valuable aspects of the experience in Bangkok was the opportunity to converse with a local and allow them to aid in navigating\u00a0me around their city, culture, and people. Beyond traveling to each site, experiencing the Thai massage, and trying the food, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","footnotes":""},"categories":[87,34,41,69],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-4029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-culture","category-culture-capsules","category-collective","tag-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejoshuagray.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejoshuagray.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejoshuagray.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejoshuagray.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejoshuagray.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thejoshuagray.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4032,"href":"https:\/\/thejoshuagray.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions\/4032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejoshuagray.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejoshuagray.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejoshuagray.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejoshuagray.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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