How different is a Chinese compared to a
Paraguayan? What about an English person compared to a Mexican? A Japanese
compared to a Cuban? Since my early teen years I have been wondering how
different people worldwide are. How do they think? How do they feel? Why people
in Brazil say Europeans are cold? Europeans are not cold; they are just more
private and deeper in their relationships. Brazilians are warm indeed, but in
some cases they can be annoyingly warm, I would place myself between the two
extremes, not so cold, not so warm, just between; imagine what you want out of
it.
On my pursuit to answer those questions I left
Brazil for the first time in 2011 for a volunteer year in Scotland together
with people from different nationalities (Germans, Koreans, Hungarians,
Scottish, Canadians etc), that was a great experience and I could for the first
time live-in with non-Brazilian people. After a few months I came to the
conclusion that, wow, we are all the same! Naturally we have our own
individuality, no doubts about it, however we are fatally on the same
human/spiritual race, we have the same emotions, we live similar dramas, we get
happy for the same reasons and sad also for almost identical reasons, later on
I could even more observe it as I gradually had other experiences in college
with foreign students.
Indeed our cultural background makes us feel slightly
far apart superficially, but in the end, once you have a chance to explore
someone else from another country you will see how close we are to each other,
how we are all humans even though we were born in a developed nation or not.
When we are teens we try to adjust ourselves and have friends, when we are
young we want different experiences, as more as we get mature we live the same
adult issues and it goes on until the end. Thus we can also conclude that wars
put in evidence how big our lack of communication and understanding is, and especially
how vulnerable we are to insane ideologies, such as nationalism, socialism and
also extreme worship of some religions that enchain so many nations in misery
and suffering.
The nations of this planet might look on very
different stages of development; a rich guy from New York might think he is light-years
away from a poor farmer in the countryside of Bangladesh, but if we look upon
an universal point of view, considering the Earth’s age and our short history
we can quickly conclude that those two persons are actually very close and
connected, and the grand grandfather of this rich guy was also a farmer trying
to survive in the middle of nowhere. Overall we are all very connected and chasing
the same purpose: happiness and well-being.
That’s why racism is something so stupid once
you think about it rationally, it is even unnecessary to say that globalization
will slowly defeats it until a point our culture and skin-color will be nothing
more than a reason to celebrate the diversity and the richness of our planet’s
beauty. When I think about racist people I realize how poor and fool they are
for not enjoying the opportunities of living in harmony with people that could
bring them a different point of view or any other thing to enrich their lives.
I am not here trying to defend minorities; I am just standing for logical
thinking.
I will probably not be here when this planet
lives as one and without borders, it will still take some centuries to be
accomplished, but for sure there will be a point when all of us will agree with
each other and no more hate will lead us to violence, tyranny, persecution
and consequently suffering. However I believe I will still be alive out of this
body and have a chance to admire this age of peace and global fraternity.
In honor to the victims of the terrorist attack
against liberty that took place yesterday in Paris.
(This text might contain a lot of English mistakes, grammar and some parts can look weird for a native speaker, writing in English makes me lose 80% of my vocabulary and sensibility to the words, however I'll only get better trying, thanks for the patience)