From Ryszard Kapuscinski’s Travels With Herodotus:

Herodotus was therefor a Greek Carian, an ethnic half-breed. Such people who grow up amid different cultures, as a blend of different bloodlines, have their worldview determined by such concepts as border, distance, difference, diversity. We encounter the widest array of human types among them, from fanatical, fierce sectarians, to passive, apathetic provincials, to open, receptive wonderers – citizens of the world. It depends how the blood got mixed, and what spirits settled in it.