Different Customs
INSPIRATIONAL, 4 May 2015
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
A Chinese man put a bowl of rice on his deceased wife’s grave every day. An American teased him and asked,
“When will your wife be able to eat that rice?”
The Chinese said, “When your dead wife smells the flowers you put on her grave every day.”
We tend to consider normal what we do, and strange what others do.
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Dietrich Fischer, born in 1941 in Münsingen, Switzerland, got a Licentiate in Mathematics from the University of Bern 1968 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University 1976. 1986-88 he was a MacArthur Fellow in International Peace and Security at Princeton University. He has taught mathematics, computer science, economics and peace studies at various universities and been a consultant to the United Nations.
Excerpted from Dietrich Fischer’s Stories to Inspire You – TRANSCEND University Press-TUP.
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