Before my first social anthropology class I had the belief that a primitive society consisted of people who live in hunts, hunt their food and wear animal skins. I believed they were primitive as they were not as technologically advanced as we were. I had realised after the class that they were in fact not primitive but were just a society with different beliefs and way of life. Another concept that changed my view was exoticization. To exoticize a culture is to create difference by romanticizing other cultures and societies. An example of how I did this was by seeing other cultures with one singular idea such Egypt. I never thought that they could be a modern society with cars and instead imagined pyramids and camels as a form of transport. I had unintentionally been creating difference and I had boxed all of them into a singular idea without even going there. I had been stereotyping them. This is all forms of othering.  The concept of othering had the biggest impact on me as I had unintentionally been doing it all my life, it gave me an entirely new mindset and changed my entire view on different cultures.