The significance of these cultural “learning moments” is defined when Batchelder explains “as a product of higher education, I had never paid the slightest attention to the green banana, except to regard it as a fruit whose time had not yet come. Suddenly on that mountain road, its time and my need had converged.” By this he means that as an American citizen raised in a country with a much higher education level, amount of resources, and technological abilities than most areas of the world, he had never considered a green banana to be of any use other than as a food item prior to his experience in Brazil. Most Americans, like Batchelder, would consider an automobile mechanic or tools an adequate and reasonable resource for fixing a broken radiator on a vehicle. As an isolated village with presumably very little, if any, formal education system and technological abilities, it developed its own use for the green banana that differed from Batchelder’s norm. The lesson that this provides is that people should not discredit the claims of other cultures and countries simply because they conflict with those of their own culture, and encourages people to adopt the idea that no one country or culture is inferior or superior to another. Instead, people that are lucky enough to experience a cultural “learning moment” should recognize the value in these moments. Had Batchelder not stopped at the Brazilian village for help at that point in his journey, he most likely would not have discovered the “green banana” and thus would not have the appreciation for cultural diversity that he does today.