... we do not wipe out our personalities and cultures, ... rather we bring in and share what we have, Zuma's African-ness, his Zulu appreciation of conversation and humour is mingling with my Jewish joke, enriching it, prolonging and intensifying the pleasure... we do not have to become like each other, erase our personal tastes and ways of seeing and doing things, but rather contribute our different cultural inputs so as to give more texture to the whole.