It is both an honor and challenge to serve as an ambassador, to represent a nation, an organization, or a famous leader in circumstances and situations outside one's own culture or homeland. While it is not possible for one individual to represent to anyone else the totality of another way of life, one individual can be a vehicle for important insights into other cultures, lands, and even religious beliefs. In the children's poem about the blind men and the elephant, each man has an accurate perception of a part of the elephant: a trunk, an ear, a tail.
