Alessandra’s Reviews > Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know > Status Update

“Throughout the majority of human history, encounters - hostile or otherwise - were rarely between strangers. The people you met and fought often believed in the same God as you, built their buildings and organized their cities in the same way you did, fought their wars with the same weapons according to the same rules. But the sixteenth century’s bloodiest conflict fit none of those patterns.”