Cultural Transition

I have said that, in order to transition from White to Black culture, as I am doing at the moment, one has to shift one's mind out of gear. In fact, once one thinks one has shifted out of gear, one has to be ready to shift out of gear again -- and again! Everything changes. OBSERVATION: Thousands of years of separate cultural development lies behind White and Black cultures in Africa. It is only comparatively recently that there has been a mixing of the two. There has been more or less mixing -- in my present environment, certainly less than one finds in the city. Having said this, it is a great privilege to experience what few White people do. Here, in all the surrounding townships, I know of no other White person who had stayed a while.