Well, I don't know what exactly it taught you, but for me it taught me a list of things:
- how to work cohesively with people with dramatically different ideas than me
- how to appreciate and participate in other cultures
- my actions and the results are dependent on me
- social systems are drastically different and are dependent on your cultural background
- There are universal human wishes and things with which you can bond
- the importance of social support, and the significance of belonging to a community
These are just a couple things I learned from moving cross-culturally throughout my life.
They wanted equal treatment that the people in Islam had that they weren't given in Hinduism. In Hinduism, each class is treated differently, the lower class treated the worst.
