Undergraduate / 'I live in a quiet place in Brussels suburbs'; MIT Essay - Describe the world you come from [4]

Describe the world you come from; for example, your family, clubs, school, community, city, or town. How has that world shaped your dreams and aspirations?(*) (200-250 words)

MIT Essay - Describe the world you come from

I live in a quiet place in Brussels suburbs. I know both the city's fervour and the rural quietness.
Through the day, I meet different cultures, I wake up in both eastern European countries culture and western European culture (my father being Romanian, and my mother being Belgian). At school, I'm immersed in a community atmosphere (I'm in a Jewish school). Being in a religious school since my young years made me think a lot about spirituality and pushed me to explore other religions and spiritualities. That offered me different ways to think.

Thanks to the different tennis clubs I belong to these last years, I've met a lot of people from varied social classes.
Living in a small country (Belgium) results in an influence of others bigger countries. The tv channels, for example, come from France. It's hard to find a nation's identity through these. The borders don't really exist. It encouraged me to constantly have an interest in other cultures, in other countries. And, by extension, in other people.

All of this bring me the ability to put myself in other people's skin and consider problems with different point of views. I became far less uncompromising over the years. I think I understand the reproaches from one community to another

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