From my experience, there will have to be compromise and I don't know of that could go so well.
For example, in my area, a few years ago, we experienced a huge influx of Chaldeans. In their culture, women are inferiors and not allowed to have social relationships with men. The Chaldean parents came to the school that many of my fellow church goers work at and demanded that their daughters sit apart from the males. This isn't a commonly accepted practice here and the teachers basically had to tell them "our country, our rules". It was difficult because they don't accept female authority.
In another area that I grew up in, many hispanics moved in and in their culture, everyone cared for each other's children, no question. Understandably, the citizen tenants became angry that the children were running loose unsupervised and their parents were angry that the tenants did.not keep an eye on them.
Cultures contradict and beliefs contradict and it is not an easy task to decide who is right and who is wrong and who should and shouldn't give up their values for the good of the whole. And that's the problem. Everyone knows that they are right, many have a valid argument for it too. If we incorporated the beliefs of every minority, we would be forcing ourselves to live by standards that we despise, and if we incorporated the minority we would harm them in that manner as well.
Would the world be better without minorities? I will not speculate. Diversity can be a wonderful thing, but at the same time, I believe that there can be a common ground made that we can all stand on without harming eah other, but that would require EVERYONE to let go of their preconceived notions, of their prejudiced and closed mindedness and to educate themselves to do so and be open to discussion without sensitivity and without having to be the only person willing to compromise.
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From my experience, there will have to be compromise and I don't know of that could go so well.
For example, in my area, a few years ago, we experienced a huge influx of Chaldeans. In their culture, women are inferiors and not allowed to have social relationships with men. The Chaldean parents came to the school that many of my fellow church goers work at and demanded that their daughters sit apart from the males. This isn't a commonly accepted practice here and the teachers basically had to tell them "our country, our rules". It was difficult because they don't accept female authority.
In another area that I grew up in, many hispanics moved in and in their culture, everyone cared for each other's children, no question. Understandably, the citizen tenants became angry that the children were running loose unsupervised and their parents were angry that the tenants did.not keep an eye on them.
Cultures contradict and beliefs contradict and it is not an easy task to decide who is right and who is wrong and who should and shouldn't give up their values for the good of the whole. And that's the problem. Everyone knows that they are right, many have a valid argument for it too. If we incorporated the beliefs of every minority, we would be forcing ourselves to live by standards that we despise, and if we incorporated the minority we would harm them in that manner as well.
Would the world be better without minorities? I will not speculate. Diversity can be a wonderful thing, but at the same time, I believe that there can be a common ground made that we can all stand on without harming eah other, but that would require EVERYONE to let go of their preconceived notions, of their prejudiced and closed mindedness and to educate themselves to do so and be open to discussion without sensitivity and without having to be the only person willing to compromise.
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Justsomejerk
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Very well said.