I first read about the relationship between culture and stray cats a few years ago. One sentence made a lasting impression on me: “In Istanbul, the cat is king.” Around the same time, I met Cairo, a blind cat who had made his way all the way from Egypt to live in an animal shelter in Chicago. I learned a bit about the terrible conditions for homeless cats in Cairo, and how shelters in the United States partnered with Egyptian organizations to rescue some of them.
On the religious/cultural subjects, most of my prior knowledge came from history classes that I had taken in the past few years. This year, for example, in World History we learned about the origins of Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism and about the ancient Egyptian and Greek societies. With that general idea about religious and cultural traditions, I could plan out which countries would be best to focus on in the documentary.
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