Being a person is easy enough. There are no predetermined expectations or opinions of you. As a person, most people don’t care about colour or religion either, and not even from which continent you come from. It would be great if everybody treated each other like persons and not because of stupid old myths, such as the Jews have all the money, Muslims always wage holy war, the Scandinavians are naked, the Irish are drunk, Americans are gun raving hillbilly lunatics (some of them are!) and Asians only eat rice. Where do all these stereotypes come from?
I’m not the person to solve the World’s problems. I can only do my best to combat them in my own space; at work, with friends and in my family. You might consider this as very narrow-minded, but if you think about, what is the last thing were you made an impact in relations to racism, poverty or war that really made a difference. The war in Iraq still wages on, soldiers on both sides are dying (rebels or allied), despite me having marched down the main streets of Dublin, protesting with 100,000 other people against the war.
But, consider this, if everybody makes small changes in their social environment, then the ripples will spread and we will make an impact on a Global level. It just takes time and a lot of committed people.
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