A person's point of view is shaped by many different aspects. Such aspects include how we were brought up, our family, economic, religious, cultural, and social background. Each of these individual components combine to form how a person views the world and society. For instance, a person brought up in a poor village in a third world country would view something as simple as food much differently than an individual brought up in the United States upper-middle class. Simply put, sometimes our position in the world hinders our view and openness to other identities, cultures, and societies. A family dinner celebrating Jewish Passover might be very strange to a Muslim individual. We become associated with "norms" that we are used to or that we have been accustomed to and therefore view other "norms" to other people as completely foreign or backwards. Therefore, a person's position in the world has an extremely large affect on their point of view. It's just as if you were to view a large building from different angles. It's the same building all around, but it can look drastically different depending on where you stand.
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