WELCOME to OUR CIRCLE of WORLD CULTURE LOVERS!! 

As a World Culture Lover, YOU hold the KEY to the mutual understanding of our diverse World Cultures!!  Be proud of your OWN heritage, but most importantly, be willing to respect and embrace those that are different from yours, with MATURITY and OPENNESS!!

Indeed, it does take an incredibly courageous individual to step out of his/her own "COMFORT ZONE" to be a World Culture Lover!! This group is NOT for those with "the faint of heart"!!   

We all know that every culture has both positive and negative components, and there is NO perfect culture in our imperfect world!!  Our WORLD is NOT all about "you" or "I", but "ALL of US"!! 

We might not be able to change the whole world on our own, but we can certainly improve our interpersonal relationships between ourselves and those who are of different cultural backgrounds, through our willingness to be receptive and open-minded in our interactions with one another!! 

Our lives, in turn, will be enriched by our willingness to learn about cultural diversities WITHOUT prejudgment, and learn to cherish the differences.

I always have a genuine interest in peoples of different cultures, which is the driving force of my deep commitment in building a “Rainbow Culture Bridge” to bring people together through various events.  I encourage you to cherish the POSITIVE side and improve upon the negative side of each culture. 

As a World Culture Lover, will you join us in making our WORLD a better place for all of us?  WE together can make a difference in this imperfect world, starting with our own positive attitudes towards the global view despite our diverse ethnic, cultural and racial backgrounds!!  

The whole WORLD has been literally brought to our front doorstep through various cultural events available in our area!! Let’s open our hearts to better understand the peoples of diverse cultures around us and explore these exciting events together!!  

We're a nonprofit social group of mature, open-minded, respectful, professional, active, friendly and responsible WORLD CULTURE LOVERS with diverse cultural/ethnic backgrounds, age ranges (20's - 80's) and professions, who simply share an incurable deep passion for World Culture Exploration with an insightful GLOBAL view of our WORLD!! 

Our membership is FREE; however, we take the "ACTIVE ATTENDANCE" requirement (at least SIX events annually - averaging ONCE EVERY TWO MONTHS) seriously as PROFESSIONALS would.  We are NOT a "VIRTUAL" but a "FACE-TO-FACE" Meetup Group and only retain those ACTIVE "QUALITY" members!!  Reminder:  Our Removal Policy for NO-SHOW, LATE CANCELLATIONS and EVENT CRASHING: THREE of EACH or COMBINED violations WITHIN a 4-month period from the initial noncompliance. 

Are you also an Avid World Traveler with worldwide travel history? If so, please consider joining OUR CIRCLE of WORLD TRAVELERS/FRIENDS - http://www.meetup.com/DC-MD-VA-World-Travelers-Forums/ to meet other avid World Travelers in our area and attend our upcoming events for informative exchanges for future travel adventures!   

Let's live our lives to the FULLEST with our positive attitude and leave incredible legacies to our WORLD in which we live!! See you all soon!! :-)  

Elise

Organizer

DC/MD/VA World Culture Lovers -http://www.meetup.com/DC-MD-VA-World-Culture-Lovers/

DC/MD/VA World Travelers Forums (Travel Talk) - http://www.meetup.com/DC-MD-VA-World-Travelers-Forums/                    

Life....is 10% of "what happens to us" and 90% of "how we react to it"!! Our "attitude", positive or negative, will most likely determine the outcome of our life events during our journey on earth. We live in the reality of "today" resulted  from the decisions we made "yesterday".  So safeguard our "attitude" with extreme care!!" - Anonymous"