Thursday, October 22, 2009

Multicultural Society



As a person who loves to adventure, I'm always curious in everything new. It's interesting for me to learn cultures and different ways of life. It'll be more fun if we try to figure out why someone in some culture do or don't do something. For example, there's a group of people in India (Hindu) who don't eat beef because they worship cows as the cows provide milk for them. Personally, I don't think multiculturalism can bring any disadvantages in the society if people are open-minded.

It's currently the 21st century. Today's technology, invention and transportation make our world smaller. We have more chance to experience the outside world. That allows us to meet many things different from our tendency we're familiar with in our country or culture which might sound "strange" for us to know and "weird" for us to accept that cultural existence. But, if we look broader and deeper, we are also weird for the other culture. So, let's open our mind and change that "weirdness" into our "interest". Then, we'll learn more, know more and love more.

Having a multicultural society supports us to adjust ourselves to the smaller world in the 21th century easier. Once again, just open your mind then bias, prejudice, stereotype and discrimination will disappear a the multicultural society. Moreover, our 22nd century will have no war, for sure.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Bang Bang!!

I've never ever had positive view toward the object called "Gun". Personally, gun represents violence. The fact that every thing has its both good and bad side can't be used with gun for me. So, it's obvious that I'll not have a gun in my house even though I'll be given one for free and legally. There're five girls in my family and many of my little cousins always come round. That's the main reason why I think I don't need a gun in my house. It's dangerous for those kids although we hide the gun in a very safe place. (Kids are smarter than we think they are. They are great explorer.)

Moreover, my community is pretty safe. We can hardly heard the news about crime or robbery in my community. But, if there's a robber sneaking into my house. A toy gun might work for threatening him/her otherwise my dad is skillful at using a slingshot. :D

Picture: A kid in classical Thai costume is using traditional slingshot.