Why knowledge in other cultures is important?

salam,

The knowledge in other cultures will help us to understand more and help us ti translate certain texts as precisely as possible. That's why a lot reading can help to broadening our knowledge and give us some perspectives. In a country like Malaysia where we have different races, we need to know about the different cultures too. Anthropologists or people who study about society, have put on so much efforts in researching about other cultures and we can easily read their findings from the internet or other sources like from their journals. As learning about other cultures is always one of my passions, I can relate this well when I try to do the translating job.