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title: ICES Blog | cultural norms
description: cultural norms | This blog is our means of sharing what we love most—seeing exchange students, host families, and the global community growing closer together through youth exchange.  It’s also a way for us to do what we love to do—provide support to students and host families to help them have the best experience possible, and help those who are not (yet) an exchange student or host family understand why they should consider getting involved.
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