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After all that happens to him, Deo still follows and achieves his dream, and stays who he is through out his journey, and keeps the culture that raised him. One of the main things you realizing after following all that Deo went trough trough his journey, that he still followed his dream to become a doctor, and more importantly eventually gets to open up his own clinic. But even when he returned to Burundi to start his project “many friends and family wondered why Deo kept coming back to Burundi. Many, including his mother, said they which he wouldn't attempt fate in this way. To me, he said, 'But it's my country no matter what. You know?” (Kidder 226). This shows the connection and the community he felt with his country. He loved it, no matter what, and nothing is gonna stop him. With all that his been trough, he still feels like it's a part of him, and you can tell that from his experience trough out his journey back. Or when he sees his old medical school he studied at and screams “It was so beautiful!” (Kidder 223). Just being able to go back and seeing all of it shows how grateful he is, and how he knows that it's reason why he got where he is now. It's a part of his culture, to just be happy, over something so little, and just being grateful. Someone from another culture wouldn't necessary scream out that while visit their old school they went trough. And I think that's another part of his old culture that Deo keeps, and what is a part of who he is as a person. At the end of the day, adjusting to a new country won't happen over night, and it takes time, but hard work pays off in the end. In order for you to be able to succeed in a new country you need to adjust, but that adjustment is not gonna happen overnight, and i... ... middle of paper ... ...ments he learned that the hard way. But trough all that he went trough, he still made it out, and it all led to what would be his success. No one could have guessed that the man who slept outside in Central Park would end up graduating from Colombia, and no one could guess that the man who at one point literally gave up on life, would be able to open his own clinic. And he could accomplish those things because he learned to adjust to the cultures he was in, and learned to find the best of them. This shows that culture not only plays a part in a country, buy also in a persons life and how much it can help someone to at time just survive, and once you find a middle ground between the two, just as Deo did, succeed in not only one, but two countries. Work Cited Kidder, Tracy. Strength in What Remains. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2010. Print.

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