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- Thoughts for Monday -
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Monday, April 03, 2006
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So I took a class last weekend on diversity and multiculturalism. It made me think a lot about the conceptions people have about others. We live in a world were it is not enough to just acknowledge that we are all human beings, but we must stereotype ourselves by race, religion, sexual orientation, sex, age, culture, region, ect. Why don't we all just take the time to realize we must agree to disagree without being disagreeable. The way I think may be right to me, but not to you. This concept does not make you wrong or me wrong, just makes us different. In the end, it will be me and God to deal with how I treated my fellow human being, and I want to be able to say I lived as Jesus did. I loved my brother as myself. I did not judge or cast stones...I embraced the differences and turned the other cheek. So the point I am trying to make is that I may be a Christian and someone else may be Buddhists. As long as that person loves his neighbor, who am I to say that they are wrong. Rather one is gay or straight, atheist or Christian, republican or democrat, black white yellow or red, we all deserve the right to live free of persecution and violence. I also developed an understanding of excepting people for their faults. None of us are perfect. We all have our hidden stereotypes and each of us have that right to make mistakes the only difference is do you learn from those mistakes and learn something about the culture you hold stereotypes about. You may not like what I say. Take what you want and leave the rest.
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