I am learning that humility is a requirement in global health. When you are the one who is outside the context, without full information, whom people view as different.
It means the following things:
Pausing and listening more.
Not assuming you get it.
Getting clarifying information from someone who understands the system better than you.
Being corrected
Being misunderstood.
None of these reactions are personal at all, however, they wlll happen. It also means that when you pause and listen and learn first, more trust is created. Also important to mention is understanding and learning first is not the same as accepting a broken system. That is dfferent.