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Cesar Chavez, Co-founder of The National Farm Workers Association   “Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.”   Let’s do the definition of disrespect. This time from the Urban Dictionary: a user called “this means“ defined it as: “the act of putting someone down, trying to make them feel low, treating someone in a horrible manner, showing a person they mean less than nothing to you, a hurtful act that is both rude and ignorant towards another person’s feelings.” Nicely done I think. That sums it up well.  Most of us belong to multiple cultures. Race, gender, religion, and myriad of other things that we each identify with makes us who believe we are. Embracing each of these makes us the complete person have become. If we are comfortable with who we are, there is no need to put someone else down who is different in their thinking and experiences. But are you truly comfortable with who you are? Feeling the need to put others down could be an indication that y