Wearing cowboy boots and driving a Chevy truck, I listen to the local country station and sing along with Martina McBride,
"Sometimes I sit on my front porch swing
Just soakin' up the day
I think to myself, I think to myself
This world is a beautiful place."
Twenty years ago, I came to the United States. And now I am living in the heartland of America, listening to its heartbeat and dancing to its rhythms.
Through my experiences as an immigrant from the Philippines, as an American wife and mother, and as a working woman, I learned to appreciate the importance of knowing about differences in cultural orientations. I learned the importance of openness to other cultural mindsets in order to maintain harmony and understanding.
Through my work in inner-city hospitals and in small, rural hospitals in the United States, I have seen the diversity and complexity of the people that comprise this country- racially, socially, economically, and physically. I have seen how culture affects the way we talk, the way we think, the way we live, and the way we die.
Because of my experiences, it has become my goal to help individuals and organizations understand people from other cultures through competent, conscious and creative intercultural communication.
In a world of multicultural symphony, we are all musicians, playing our own instruments and dancing to our own rhythms, and listening with our hearts.
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This page last updated 2007.
