On a recent visit to Prague for my fertility journey, I had a chat with a young Uber driver from Kazakhstan. Since I’ve always found Central Asia a fascinating cross-roads region, I was interested to ask him questions about his experience in Prague. He was perfectly polite and friendly, but frankly honest about his complete disinterest in Czech culture.

He explained that he immediately located the Kazakh community in Prague, eats Kazakh food, socializes with Kazakhs. He seemed proud to declare that he had not tried Czech food even once during his five years in Prague.

All I could think was “imagine if a white American or British person was living in any non-Western country and bragging about having zero interest in the host culture and never even tried the local cuisine. We’d be skewered as ignorant xenophobes.”

- Tribalism & Kindred by CE

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