Walk a mile in their shoes

Regarding “Disgusted by Writers’ Disrespect” [Letters, April 25]: Unfortunately, I have found total assimilation when traveling the world on organized tours a difficult feat. I confess to feelings of intrusion at times when visiting churches, mosques and the like, but I know these places represent the culture of the people and seeing them leads to better understanding their customs.

The ideal way to see and feel another country is to live and work in it as a citizen does. But not all of us are afforded those kinds of opportunities.

Edna M. Tobias

Hermosa Beach

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Travelers who would search for heavenly places to visit should heed the words of George Bernard Shaw in “Pygmalion”:

“The great secret ... is not having good manners or bad manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: In short, behaving as if you were in heaven, where there are no third-class carriages and one soul is as good as another.”

L. Benson Marsh

Huntington Beach