How To Begin World Peace.
Every beauty contestant at one time or other says she wants World Peace. Bumper stickers make fun of this with “whirled Peas” and there are faithful church-goers praying for Peace in the World. We approve of the prayers obviously; however, what are we doing to actually lay the foundations for it? If a citizen tries to study another religion, say, Islam, they are put on a list when they check the book out of the library. If an American shows tolerance of other cultures they are suspect and Homeland Security makes us all less secure as a result.
Perhaps we need to ask some logical questions. We were once at war with the Japanese. Now we are their good friends. What changed to make that happen? Let’s see. America helped repair their country after we bombed it. Good, but not enough. America trades with them and we use their nasty High Fructose Corn syrup we got in a swap in a trade agrement. Americans buy their big Motorcycles they only sell to other countries. They aren’t allowed to be that crazy locally so the big honkin’ CCs come here. You know there are factory workers shipping out boxes of huge Japanese hogs thinking to themselves, “Not my funeral.” Fine. We have the land and straight long roads to do it on. That may give them a sense of satisfaction. But that doesn’t make them our friends.
Americans recognize that the Japanese are really smart; they produce earnest students, terrific electronics, are smart enough to limit their population to suit their island and resources. We even try to emulate them and go to the trouble of learning Japanese. It seems obvious that this approach is working well enough. We doubt another military attack will happen any time soon.
Well anyway ,we finally got Germany to tear down the Berlin Wall after we started appreciating what the Germans had to offer the world besides V-2 rockets. (Well, maybe we appreciated what they had to offer along with the rockets: America recruited their scientists by the handful after the war.) It wasn’t uncommon to speak a decent amount of German, too. It is almost like learning to converse with a people causes nations to stop being enemies. What’s up with that?
On the bright side, there may be hope in the Gulf region now that we have had so many Americans going the Mid-East to build in the Sudan, and protect the oil fields in Iran, to try to clean up the mess in Iraq, and show the civilians everywhere that there is another way of life whether they want it or not. At least Americans are learning some of their language, that the peoples of the region practice their religion sincerely and do value Freedom.
They must because a lot of them fled their homeland under Saddam to come here They speak the language well and hopefully write back that Americans aren’t all soldiers, or bigots, or have nothing about them to respect. It seems that we really need to put our best foot forward so they do gain a good opinion of us. We could show them respect in return. That seems to work well.
All jokes aside because this is a serious issue, we will stand a better chance of having World Peace when we have World Respect. After all, a person in her or his own country ought to be able to live as they see fit. We demand that right for ourselves why shouldn’t they? If they don’t live as we do, so what. It is their country, after all and their traditions are time honored, valued and work for them. When their way of life doesn’t serve them anymore, they will change them as history has shown, and likely, they will become more like Western countries.
One Deity created all of us and our differences are no less valued than theirs. (Think about that a moment.) Think like a global family and treat each other with respect.
“And if I am chosen to be Miss Decedent Sex Object, I will dedicate my reign to World Respect.” * * *
Written by arrwyn
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