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The Hidden Bias | Challenging Cultural Biases Through Travel

challenging cultural biases
Photograph by Steve Snider

Travel and other opportunities to experience diversity can help us reveal and release our hidden biases

We all have an implicit bias.

Even good people have it — and this does not make them bad. Our biases are the results of social conditioning and cultural evolution; they are inevitable. It is important that we are aware of them and make an effort to understand our engrained beliefs

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