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At this moment there is only one physical border we have. Planet Earth. Please work and build understanding towards ascending above all borders, both physical a

by qpiox 6y ago

At this moment there is only one physical border we have. Planet Earth. Please work and build understanding towards ascending above all borders, both physical and mental. I am a homo sapiens, a living being from this Universe. Born on the Planet Earth. My mother and father were also homo sapiens. Their mothers and fathers too. Several million generations before, their mothers and fathers were some types of primates, who knows. I respect the languages my mother and father and their mothers and fathers spoke and taught me, but I do not want to be limited to those. Therefore, I also tried to learn few other languages. To name some well-known: English. Deutsch. Italian. Basic. Pascal. C. C++. Forth. Modula II. Logo. Lisp. Fortran. Cobol. Java. Javascript. Probably few more that I don't remember :) Some of them I only studied on paper, without any direct opportunity to apply it in real life. I studied those, just for the sake of studying. I love to listen to people speaking in many languages and I love when people use many dialects of the same language, that are so different to each other that they barely understand themselves. Diversity should be considered a blessing.

LudwigNagasena 6y ago
All of that sounds pretty cool, especially if your only focus on diversity is limited to the food you eat and the songs you listen to. But the only real thing that makes it possible for people to live together is uniformity. Same language, same customs, same expectations, at least same calendar. It seems to be absolutely laughable that people from anglophone countries nowadays love to talk about diversity when they are unable to find a common ground with their rural compatriots and all their “diverse” friends are the same middle class people grown up on Hollywood movies and Rowling books.
- qpiox 6y ago
  It was an extrapolation on Socrate's quote “I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

by qpiox 6y ago

LudwigNagasena 6y ago

All of that sounds pretty cool, especially if your only focus on diversity is limited to the food you eat and the songs you listen to. But the only real thing that makes it possible for people to live together is uniformity. Same language, same customs, same expectations, at least same calendar. It seems to be absolutely laughable that people from anglophone countries nowadays love to talk about diversity when they are unable to find a common ground with their rural compatriots and all their “diverse” friends are the same middle class people grown up on Hollywood movies and Rowling books.

qpiox 6y ago
It was an extrapolation on Socrate's quote “I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."