Deeper Understandings

Traveling to distant lands and studying the day-to-day lives of foreign peoples may deepen your understanding that clothes, food and religion don't really matter because underneath it all, all people are assholes.  Greed and selfishness exist even in countries that don't have McDonalds and kids are cruel even if they call Santa "Sinterklaas" or "Muhammad." 

Of course, some people aren't assholes, but those people are usually married to one.