Changing our Mind

In the section of Appiah's book, "Changing Our Minds," he talks about how it is so hard to change a persons mind, especially when they are raised a certain way and believe what they know as the only way.
The example of spanking is common topic for discussion here in America, however, the topic of male and female circumcising during teenage years, is a harder topic to consider. By showing a different side of thought he tries to show us how it is so easy to stand by something that is easy to believe in and see how others may do so with something we would never consider standing by.
To understand how others think and to help reach compromises with each other we must see it through there side and not just by their point of view but also by how they consider it. An idea can be changes because we can remember when it became an idea and why we thought of it, but a belief is harder to change because we never knew it becoming an idea it was always there for us to believe in.
So when trying to reach compromise and change or persuade someone or some group, we must see how it is they think and how they came about that way of thinking.