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Originally Posted by Sun_Sparkz
---snip---People crap on and say "oh but if you only got to know the Muslims (or whoever it is) personally, you would understand their way of life and thinking more."
pfft!
Get to know US more you cowards. Get to know how simple, and pure WE really are. get to know that we are nice, and we are good, and we are not anything BAD!! If they did maybe they would want to give us all "thankyou's" by not bombing us in the first place.--snip--
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First let me say that I agree with you that if we were better known by the people who are bombing us, that maybe we wouldn't be bombed. A lot more than maybe, actually, more like almost certainly. In fact I think the truth of that proposition extends even beyond east-west muslim-christian-jew brown-white-black-yellow-red "differences". I think that it is unavoidable that the more you really know another person, the less likely you are to want to bomb them.
Which brings me to me to the point on which you and I agree less. I read your post and I get the sense that you're saying: "Some people tell me to get to know 'them' and things would be better, but I say let 'them' get to know me instead and things will be better". There's a lot of truth to that.
The sticking point for me is this. I can get other people to do diddly-squat. I say "do this, do that" and it's just wind. I have a vanishingly small amount of control over what other people do.
But, I do have much more control over what I do. And if I choose to do so, I can learn about 'them'. Which will likely have the positive effects described above. And will possibly have the positive effect of demonstrating to 'them' that: A--I am not bombing them, and B--I value 'them' enough to put forth the effort to learn about them, and that will probably incline them to reciprocrate.
It all starts inside, and the only inside I have access to is my own. That's the only change I can count on making. That's the one I try to make better every day.