LH, if the goal and the topic both are peace, is it not better to seek to understand the other, than to expect the other to understand you?

Does this not possibly include yielding to the cultural understanding and milieu of the other?

Or is it more peace-building to insist on being right, and having a right to one's own language habits?

My own experience has been that before I can hope the other will see that we have things in common, each must first find their own basis of discussion respected, or I am imposing what I think someone SHOULD see on what they DO see. In all the alliance-building work I've done, that's been one of the first hurdles.

~Susan