Letter of motivation - correction

Hey guys,

I am applying for a program to study a term abroad in Japan. One must include a letter of motivation with the application (and also a cv, that's why there are no personal information in the letter of motivation). Could you please have a look considering the grammar and style? Thanks a alot =)

Dear Sir or Madam,

being educated and open-minded is, in my humble opinion, one of the primary goals every human being should try to achieve in his life. But what does it mean? One could say, that being educated means to have a basic understanding of how the world around one works and being open-minded means to accept the views and ways of other people. However, as far as I am concerned, this is insufficient to call oneself open-minded and educated. One should be eager to learn something new every second of his life. It is not enough to have a basic understanding, one should try to achieve a full understanding of every thing in the world. It is not enough to accept another perspective one should try to understand it, too. For understanding something, one must first have some sort of knowledge of it. To put it in a nutshell, being open-minded and educated is basically the same thing and bound together. If one is educated and never stop to learn something, which includes other way of lives, one is truly open-minded to his surroundings. This is of course a lifelong quest and that's by design. Lifelong learning, that’s it.
Not every knowledge is learned by books or teachers, some is only taught by life and travel. A country’s feel must be experienced by visiting this particular country. For this goal of getting the most education I decided long before my study that one term I should study abroad. I want to experience a different culture to improve my understanding of how the world works in general and of others in special. Internationalisation is getting more and more important. I am a very ambiguous person and want to be at the front of new technologies and inventions. In the future I wish to work in an international environment and having contact with people from different countries. But people from different nations have different perspectives of the same situations. To be able to work in such a surrounding it is crucial to know this perspectives. Because of that I wish to study in a country which culture is very different from my mine own. I am sure this will greatly contribute to my personal development by expanding my skills to deal with a given situation in many different ways.
For many years the japanese culture fascinated me. It first started with the anime and manga culture but quickly I also got interested in their way of living and the japanese history. Japan is considered a very exotic, almost mystically country. It is geologically and ethnologically far away from Germany. Without a shadow of doubt studying there and experienced the daily life will broaden my world view and make me a more global man. Furthermore Japan is a very technological country. As a computer science student technology is my life. Computer science is a rapidly changing discipline and staying up to date is a challenge on it’s own. Living in a country what a high technology will surely widen my own horizon towards the good (and bads) about having a great deal of technology all over the place. Last but not least I am fascinated by the language. “Japanese? One of the hardest language to learn” all of my friends say. There is no better way to learn a language as to live in a country where the language is spoken and this goes double for Japanese. Adding Japanese to my repertoire of known languages is another major goal.
Study abroad at the Hiroshima City University would benefit towards all of this goals. Not only they offer very interesting courses (like the Computer Course, the Intelligence Software Course and Japanese languages courses), Hiroshima is also a city with an important history and observing how the city regenerate from it’s tragic past is something I am very interesting in. I believe that studying in Hiroshima will benefited my character as well as my future career.
Yours sincerely,

Chiv