aristofene

It's time to ponder on this pasted year. I have been in this country called: Iraq for a year now I can't truly say I lived here. I was here, of course. The scar on my forehead would not let me forget, that the lady wearing black Prada came and kissed me on the cheek. I would have like to experience this part of the world in a different way but I guess that is irremediably daily to stereotype or categorize someone, by their region, religion, station, is always the slowness of their education. This, I have learnt in such a horrid way. The people with whom I work are supposed to be the intelligent and the most knowledgeable a government can recruit. Yet, they seem to make hasty judgments about the cultural influences of people. Well, allow me to demonstrated, If you were rise to think a certain football team was the best and only the best, you grand pa, your father, your brothers follow that team. And in a patriarchal atmosphere, you must, then, follow that team. There is no other way, you can follow another team. The black and white team is the one to follow. Thus, you follow. Until, a great gray day, you realize that there is another team better than the black and white one. Their colors you start to wear and display their logos. The green and white ones are not allow in your home, so you start to hide the colors and logos. You have changed your loyalty from the inherit team to the new team. With this, do you stop being the son or member of your family because you switch teams? The same thing can be expressed about religion. If there wasn't really a "GOD" to adhere to, this people would be better than us. Ergo, why do we persist in treating them like they are sons of a lesser God?
The fact someone was born in the Middle East, does not make him automatically Muslim or Jew or Arab, or other Someone is religious and the social structure is that too religious. Someone who is religious has more value than the one who is not. This societal labyrinth and the psycho-societal structure make it almost impossible for someone who has not lived outside their culture to understand the stand of someone else' culture because the ethnocentrism takes over judgment. Just like the person with a different football team, these persons who have different beliefs and ways to life live. They have to hide their convictions and beliefs just because they would be judged and alienated from their society because they are different in their thinking. There are always around people who would challenge the norms of a society because this is human nature and human inquiry. Human beings are not beings to be caged in religion or cultural cast. If one tries to cage a human being, one would find just how versatile and adaptable a human being can be when he cornered.