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.
Hooda, I agree with your opinion. I guess open-minded and optimistic should go well together.
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ReplyDeleteI love your picture that you posted with this blog! I thought that cows were sacred in India because of the Hindu belief of reincarnation, but I just googled it, and your statement seems to be closer - they revere it because of its giving nature.......interesting!
I do agree that having the attitude of "interesting" rather than "wierd" is a much better place to be coming from.
From the developing of technology and culture, some people losing their internal personality.
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