Time travel may not exist. But when the world is blessed with wonderful artists who can paint pictures with their words, and transport you to different realms through their imagination, who needs to time-travel anyway?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Authors have an amazing power to make us smile from one ear to the other, and even fill our hearts with sorrow with the slightest swirls of their pens!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Time machine or not, writers have the ability to transport us to an alternate reality. And the perks of such wisdom shouldn\u2019t just be limited to your own culture. With books, you can learn about the many different people of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. Understand culture from one of their own!<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Reading books from other cultures helps us comprehend the lifestyles of such people, their daily struggles, and the harsh realities that people from different backgrounds have to face. But it\u2019s not all negative either! You can also learn many amazing things from others\u2019 cultures as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Contrary to popular belief, Mexico isn\u2019t covered with an orange filter, and neither are all Arabs carrying swords on their waist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of the day, it will not only make you more knowledgeable, empathetic, but if you happen to be from a privileged society comparatively, it will make you appreciate life in a new light!<\/p>\n\n\n\n But this is not to disregard any work of authors who did cover a foreign country in their books. Outside perspectives do help. But it is true that culture is best understood through the natives of the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For instance, the history of geisha culture is rich and full of complexities. In no way can a white male, 35, delve into a topic like this and do it justice without majoring in it for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, if you were ever intrigued by the beauty of this famous class of Japanese entertainers, why not pick up a book written by a renowned Japanese author instead?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Break Through The Web of Stereotypes!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The portrayal of different cultures has been perverted through the inaccurate adaptations in Hollywood films, not to mention the utter disgraceful stereotypical nonsense that only adds mediocre humour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Books written by authors of the said backgrounds do justice to the representations of their nations and cultures and help to manifest a better comprehension of their background and struggles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Therefore, to better know the world we live in, and the different people of uniquely beautiful colours and how their lives differ from ours, it is crucial we read about them, than simply relying on movie adaptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Easy To Way To Learn The Native Terms!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n What shows more culture than being able to use the correct term when referring to something foreign? That\u2019s right, show off your newfound intellect at a dinner party or woo your special someone by not being ignorant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For instance, you don\u2019t want to confuse the Mexican D\u00eda de los Muertos with Halloween and offend your Mexican friend, as these two events are vastly different from one another. While one celebrates life and death, and loved ones who have passed, the other is an event largely focused on the scarier aspects of death. It\u2019s cool to be \u201cwoke\u201d in this era!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, you may not know which books to read to get a better picture of life on the other side of the hemisphere, but don\u2019t worry as we have our list of suggestions for you, and also what to expect in each book. We\u2019ll just recommend three, each with its very own heartfelt story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This award-winning novel by Khalid Hosseini is one of a kind. The setting is in Afghanistan around the time when the Taliban took over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The novel not only depicts the sheer hard reality of how difficult it was to survive under the Taliban regime with people deprived of their freedom but also shows how the cultural context deterred and vilified women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this day and age, child marriage is supposed to be an issue of the past. Sadly, it still persists in some cultures as shown in the depiction of the lives of Afghan women by Khalid Hosseini.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Does marital rape sound unreal to you? Well, it\u2019s very much real as the book tells us. The sheer abuse women have to deal with is incomparable in these patriarchal societies and it makes you wonder whether humanity ever exists in some places of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The book defines how women in the rural parts of the Sub-Continent are subjected to mental, physical, and emotional abuse. They are merely toys to be played with and hardly hold the status of a human, let alone a woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The concluding plot also teaches us the though these women never really have a bright future to look forward to, how they are content with the tiniest of gladness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n5 Great Novels to Read from Other Cultures<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
A Thousand Splendid Suns<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Things Fall Apart<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n