The old rule in language arts we all learned, i. e., "i before e, except after c," like most rules has exceptions. For example: The weird, reinstated sovereign seized the weighty beige reindeer's reins leisurely! You get the idea. To every so-called "rule" of human behavior, multiple exceptions generally exist. More important, an outcome of global studies should be to alert students – even young students – to the fact that all "averages" they hear or read do not include the "exceptions" that always exist. The lines on special purpose maps they use are not finite, they represent "zones" or transitional areas between whatever feature or characteristic is being depicted. And "typical" visuals they see in textbooks of other world nations, regions and cultures may – or just as easily may not – be agreed to as being either typical or representative of the area or people depicted by those who live and spend their lives there. Finally, areas defined as regions are not by any means without incredible diversity and true homogeneity does not exist.