Does AIESEC help with cultural immersion and educating trainees to avoid negative cultural stereotypes?
HB: AIESEC teaches you a lot of respect. You get to know a lot of different people, and it teaches you how great it is that people are that different. The basic idea is that if the world’s six billion people were all the same, it would be just horrible! You would look around and only see yourself! I don’t know if I could stand that, me all over! So it is mainly the opportunity to get to see faraway places that you’ve only heard about. At first, I wasn’t very happy about going to US, because everyone knows something about the US. I always thought it would be so much better to go to some country I knew almost nothing about — that would be a real cultural experience. Maybe someday in the future! GTS: Is there one where you’d like to go? HB: Before I applied to work at PWC, I also applied to Ivory Coast. Unfortunately, they wanted someone who spoke French! I know nothing about Ivory Coast except that it’s in northwest Africa and that French is the national language there. I would also rea
