In School I once had a teacher who showed us how westernocentric we were and after that I put some efforts into geography and history of the places I didn't know. That has really been a great investment. People really like that you have a general idea about their home country - if can name the language(s) that are spoken it's even better.

One of my funniest projects here on Steemit was to make pulp fiction illustrations to this young Nigerian (Igbo) bloke's short stories. Here's illustrations for the first part