Previously, we argued that ethnocentricity limits the self, hence individuals have to
look at themselves from a different perspective to surmount such limitation; thus, culture
classes are vital in enabling individuals to see themselves from a different point of view.
Similarly, Pulverness (2004) stresses this point by stating that just as literature ostracizes the
familiar object to the self –e.g. Russian literary critic Viktor Shklovsky explained how
Tolstoy ostracized the familiar object- culture class ostracizes the learner to him, which helps
him to see himself from a different perspective. As argued above, most people are so
ethnocentric that when they begin to study another language their restrictedness in their own
culture prevents them from seeing the world via different ways of looking. Overcoming the
limits of monocultural perspective and reaching the realm of different perspective could be
facilitated by studying another culture.