What should we do when we are confronted with other cultures?

Facing different cultures may create gaps between people. One may disagree about another person's opinion of the culture. Disagreements always occur in all places. Here is one personal experience I had many years ago. When I first moved to TCIS in kindergarten, I tremendously struggled over the gap between two different cultures: America and Korea. I only knew alphabets and I couldn't speak a single word of english. Then one girl came up to me and starting to ask questions by gestures, due to the fact that I couldn't speak a word of english, only twenty-seven letters of alphabet. At that moment, I felt a bit awkward because surprisingly, the girl came up to me and actually tried to help me throughout my first day of school in the very DIFFERENT atmosphere. Even though she had blue eyes and blonde hair and I had brown eyes and black hair, we soon became friends very quickly. I was stunned because in most korean schools, if someone was different compared to other classmates, then that person was likely to stay alone most of time. I mean, korean students don't tend to walk up to a new classmate and greet them. Obviously, going to an international school created fear and tension for a 7-year old korean girl. But through this experience I learned how to confront with other cultures. It wasn't something to avoid it, just like making excuses for things you don't want to face with, but you actually had to confront it yourself, understanding the other cultures by giving respect. Forcing yourself to understand the culture is also not a good idea. Putting yourself into their aspects and cultures and the process of trying to understand and giving respect to their culture is what matters the most, because there are diversity of cultures in our world.