<span>Before any interaction with a different culture group, I should consider what I know about that culture group. What I know about the Lilliputians is that they are six-inch-tall people. I also know, from their interactions with Gulliver, that they are quite selfish. The Lilliputians would need for other culture groups to understand that about them. That being said, I should not only recognize their culture, but also my own. One of the aspects of my culture is to be unselfish. I would need to make sure that I did not allow the Lilliputians to take advantage of my good nature.</span>
Dante also uses similes, comparisons of one thing to another using "like" or "as," most notably in his remarkable description of the souls of the condemned moving onto Charon’s boat