How Living in Different Cultures Teaches You About Who You Are
Living across the globe I learned what I like, what I dislike, and what I don’t have to fear anymore. Told through funny comics.
In the age of digital nomads, we are often bombarded on social media by these amazing traveling lifestyles of people constantly hopping from one country to another. This article is not about that.
I will tell you what I learned from my experiences of really living in a new country for extended periods of time, from a few months to many years: Not as a tourist or a foreigner who happened to stumble upon these places, but as a person integrated in the local community in all the ways that matter.
Here are the 4 personal developments I achieved while living in 5 different countries (Croatia, Portugal, Australia, Vanuatu, and Germany), with accompanying comics retelling some of my funny moments.
1. You learn what matters to you and what you can live without.
The first thing I realized when I first moved away from Croatia, my home country, was that I was free to adopt new cultural practices. I became aware that there were certain things I much preferred in this new culture, compared to the one I come from. And there were also some customs where I preferred my original…
