had to share it

This is actually what I have been feeling throughout my master degree so far. I feel that the more we dig deeper into understanding the more we realize that the sea is so much more frightening than the reality of it.
I came across this picture on Facebook and it broke into my heart.

those are representatives of the world getting an education. The first one is Arab, second American, third European and fourth African  The teachers asks a questions : "what is your opinion about the lack in food supply to the rest of the world?"
the Arab says: what does "what do you think"mean?
the American says: what does "the rest of the world"mean?
the European says: what does "lack"mean?
the African says: what does "food" mean?

the idea is, we may all be speaking the same language, but unfortunately this is the reality we live in..

just thought of sharing!!

Diversity

This was a topic I was waiting to hear more from...

Coming personally from a very diverse community at home, in school, among my friends and work. It may seem that diversity comes easier to me.
I do accept everyone as they are, and I do acknowledge their differences and gain more understanding and compassion towards them in that way. I strongly believe that there is a difference between understanding diversity and living diversity.

Understanding diversity is when I do know that people are different than me due to their color, race, ethnicity, gender, social class and so on.
But living diversity is a much harder task. I may accept people for being different but to which extend I allow that difference to merge within my norm.

Diversity is like paint spilled with different colors everywhere, could those colors stay away from each other for long or will there be a merging point?

When we decide to live in a world of diversity, then we need to accept that this will sooner or later be merging and that should be accepted not cause conflict.

In another class, we were watching a documentary about Serbia, Yogoslavia and Bosnia and what astonished me was a girl who says that, I live in Bosnia but I am Serbian. That does not mean I am Bosnian because I am Serbian, but when I go to Serbia, I'm not Serbian because i'm Bosnian , then who am I.

This is what we create when we only acknowledge diversity and not believe in it and accept it.

A great struggle faced with diversity is religion.

Many religions defy and go against each others in belief, then how can we unify and still allow freedom and equality and not become the next France? 

I must quote Mike and say, those past two presentation classes made me pregnant with thought! I believe I will be even more pregnant when I try to fulfill those ideologies i have into Humanity. 

How can I allow people to freely express themselves while respecting others but at the same time make them understand and believe that if someone wants to merge those two extremes then it is acceptable even though the norms might go against it. 

For example, I might know and live with GLBT people but my religion defies it. I might choose to accept it as long as it does not affect me personally, but what will happen when it is merge into my family? 

I believe many of us may accept something on concept but when it comes to actually being a part of it, it is different. 

To be honest, I do not think that any level of awareness is enough to make people accept and appreciate others for who they are. What should we do?? is a big question mark I still hold???

Social Justice

Creating a World or a Community where everything and everyone is considered equal. We are born different yet we need to be considered equal. 

From my friends' presentations about social justice. Many questions filled my mind. 

What we are trying to do in Humanity is create the perfect world, where we have a clean slate to do whatever we want. We do not have the common excuse off, it was just handed to us that way. 

Since we are created different, I imagine that Humanity will have lots of different people which is evident with the multilingual aspect we have established there. 

Social Justice aims for a community where everyone feels equally appreciated, their rights heard and addressed and there is mutual respect among all. 

I do support those theories greatly, but when we come to create a unified system, with all those diverse people, then who's laws and regulations would I place. I believe the struggle will be who's equality are we considering. Yest there are certain aspects we all agree on, for instance, right to life, education, gender, race. What got me thinking was the idea that justice is blind. 

Thus, it does not matter who you are, it considers everyone the same. Will my distribution of justice actually be equal? A picture that has been posted on facebook for a while talks about how it may be just to give each person a box to stand on but is it equal in benefit to do that? 

My other major concern is... equality and freedom, are they on the same side or are they pulling at opposite ends?

The idea is, as Humanity is diverse, then how will there be satisfaction from each party towards the justice and equality the society has place. I do not believe that everyone will see it as fair or as equal distribution over certain rules, which will result in conflict. Will it turn into a vicious circle?