понедельник, 12 января 2009 г.

Cultural mishmash

Today we observe the situation, when people, who belong to different cultural heritages, live close to each other. Thus people today have more opportunities to get to know other cultures and traditions. I think that this favors tolerance, mutual understanding and hope for the future without interconfessional encounters and misunderstanding. Besides, the number of mixed marriages is increasing exponentially. Thus people understand that things which separate us are obsolete and are very far from reality. We have much more in common than we thought before. All people of the world experience happiness and sorrow equally. Other feelings are also experienced equally. Everything which separates us from each other is nothing else than an external influence and is unnatural. Many people are afraid of cultural mishmash. They think that when diversity disappears, all people become the same, they think and act the same and thus it becomes easier to manipulate them. However, I think that these conspiracy theories are created by schizophrenics and are very far from the real state of affairs. The fact that people have more and more in common proves that people understand each other better and soon there will be no wars and misunderstanding. We are staying on the edge of a new era, the era of prosperity and friendliness.