Some anthropologists have written about the emotions they go through in learning another culture, and since at first you don't even speak the language the subjects can be pretty rough on you, since you know no more than a baby. And some of those emotions can be pretty negative. I remember a field school when we were transported from our graduate studies in California to Reno, Nevada. I admit there were times watching drunken gamblers that I didn't have much respect for them.
But once you get to the part where you are seeing the world from the gamblers point of view, whether you like or dislike them is no longer relevant.
