It is time to Unite!
- UnitedLux
- May 25, 2018
- 3 min read
An ominous era is looming over us; an era when it would become essential to be equipped with sensibilities to comprehend differences in people across nationalities, religions, cultural groups, gender and ethnicity.
It wasn’t yesterday that we saw our friends as fellow humans without their ethnic tags or religions. It was eons ago. When life was simpler and human relationships were easier. We have journeyed ahead to a today where boundaries of various kinds and colours exist. The intelligent decision would be to shake oneself out of the reveries of yesterday and embrace the change and strive towards understanding different lives and integrate humanity respecting their differences. Youth holds a key role in this herculean task.
Concerns are aplenty. It begins at the intricacies of migrant life; Lives of millions travelling to another nation in the optimistic effort to make a living which they couldn’t do in their homeland. The struggles are real and may be intensified when you are not in the warmth of your home. New language, new place, new people. It’s not easy to be a migrant. Period. Harder it becomes when the separation takes place on the basis of colour and ethnicity. Colour as a discriminator has always been a vice and in the 21 st century we are still grappling over the same issue, in subtler and latent forms.
The struggle deepens when the migrant is a refugee. It’s over the world news day in and day out; the natives of one country turning refugees of another. According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, in 2017, 65.6 million people were displaced from their
homeland out of conflict, war and human right violations. A darkness is cast over all images that flash in the world media and people flounder-“to believe or not?!” Because it is at times so gruesome and inhumane. Some news would be enhanced for media attention but we would end up in a fool’s paradise if we think all is well in the war-torn and poverty stricken countries while we relax in the comforts of our couch back home.
If we turn to the annals of history, we could infer that religion was created as a way of life. It was meant to serve as a simple pathway for people to follow towards their journey to freedom of mind and soul. It was intended to untangle spiritual questions that may arrive from living in a complicated world. But in the present day, religion and religious differences become a concerning topic on the world front. Majorities and minorities have formed and they indulge in an eternal push in propagating their own religions against the other.
The effort to understand contemporary human life eventually takes us to the differentiation of work between household and professional space based on gender. Gender discrimination still continues to be a baffling puzzle for all nationalities. To add to the existing dilemma is the constant struggle of a third gender for acceptance in social life. Trans-genders are also inhabitants of the same earth and they deserve to live with respect and honour.
Every cloud has a silver lining and the silver lining here is youth. Bogged down by the
differentiation of people by multitudinous factors, the world needs youth to wake up and rally towards integration. It’s in them, a flexible thinking space which isn’t marred by
rigidness of convention disguised in the name of experience, to create a mind-set which
discerns these differences in people and accepts and respects it on the grounds of
humanity. It’s in them, the confidence and willingness to initiate true global integration.
The time has arrived for positive change and “United” should be the slogan for the present and for a promising future!!!!
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