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[quote=Anonymous]I just finished "Things Fall Apart" by China Achebe, and came away thinking that it will really affect the way I think about, and relate to, other people. 
The story unfolds in pre-colonial Nigeria (late 1800s), and it's renowned for being a novel that brought this culture to a global audience. But what I took away was somewhat different. The tribe in the story has certain beliefs, customs, superstitions that may seem quite different from our own, but they make sense to the members of the tribe, and often serve a wider purpose. When the story involved some interaction with white culture, it gave me another chance for to think about the belief systems of the white culture in the story, and compare/contrast. 
So it made me really think about the belief systems of our current society and how they interact with each other..and one main theme is that things aren't all 'black and white', so we must try to understand the other perspectives. 
I haven't been this impacted by a book for a long time.[/quote]

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