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Hoooold up, first of all if he was taught by a communist teacher i’m sure he was taught well;) and second of all, your ‘great nation’ (to be more specific George Bush & co.) literally made Osama, they formed this group of ‘terrorists’ in order to start a war in the Middle East because your ‘beautiful’ nation doesn’t have any left. And before making a statement like ‘illegal aliens’ you should be aware of the fact that you and your fellow white mates came to America from Western & Central Europe and Australia; so the only illegal aliens are you people. By the way, us foreigners take all your jobs because apparently American High school students can barely find Africa on the map. 

Hoooold up, first of all if he was taught by a communist teacher i'm sure he was taught well;) and second of all, your 'great nation' (to be more specific George Bush & co.) literally made Osama, they formed this group of 'terrorists' in order to start a war in the Middle East because your 'beautiful' nation doesn't have any left. And before making a statement like 'illegal aliens' you should be aware of the fact that you and your fellow white mates came to America from Western & Central Europe and Australia; so the only illegal aliens are you people. By the way, us foreigners take all your jobs because apparently American High school students can barely find Africa on the map. 

Carter, I encourage to find reputable sources to back up some of your points. 

lol great nation 

I disagree with your belief that differences between people cause conflicts. But I disagree with the fact you state that people have to have the same opinions and beliefs to co-operate even though you bring up Croats and Serbs having conflict because Yugoslavian war. It is not because of their differences it because of lack of tolerance like in Ghana not all Ghanaians are the same some have differing religions, some have differing political parties, some have differing social classes but yet we don’t experience religious or political intolerance or persecution. So I believe that is not differing opinions that cause conflict I belief it’s just to tolerance.  For example in school we all tolerate one another even though most literally nothing in common. We rather base our judgments on people’s character not their opinions or appearances and this doesn’t lead to conflict.

hm? did you even listen to what I was saying? I said that differences are a good thing and no I did not say that people need to have the same opinion and beliefs to cooperate...so listen next time :p

Thank you! As for your question, achieving it will be very challenging and difficult, it may take generations but things don't improve over night. The best way to achieve acceptance and understanding is to raise our children to accept everyone and value friendship more than material things. Most of us are the mirror of our parents and the way we were raised, some people are strong enough to form their own that's completely opposite from their parents, but my point is that we can teach the next generations to be much more peaceful than ours ever was. 

I love how you made me realize that there are so many things that cause this world to be cold, and how you chose one to talk about instead of trying to talk about them all which would have been confusing and maybe not as accurate. I strongly agree with the fact that in a lot of countries women are still not viewed as equal to men, and that does create a lot of tension in this world. Do you think that this is a problem world wide or just in some countries? And do you think it’s because of certain cultures and/or religions or is it just simply because men feel that they deserve a higher status in society?

Thank you! I’m glad you agree to my opinions. Great question, I personally don’t think it is a problem all over the world. Only to some countries, but I can’t say “most” because I didn’t do the research. When speaking about gender equality, i’d say religion is the main cause of all these conflicts. As you have said in your own blog, we act how we are being raised. That also connects to how the rules in different religions make men and women unbalanced.

I agree that religion has a big impact on this issue, but what I don't understand is how can you love your mother but still thing of women as less than men? And after thinking about it, in a lot of cultures having a son is better than having a daughter, in China and India there were some cases of parents killing their daughters in order to be able to have a son. So yes, maybe the way men are raised in these countries has the biggest impact, in my opinion even more than religion.

I genuinely agree to your idea of connecting certain events such as peace, to your own experiences. Your video has inspired me so much on how to accept people for who they are, and no matter how they treated you before. They will be sorry and regretful. I admire your understanding about respecting people’s opinions too. Definitely, the way people act and become depends on how the are raised. Therefore, they don’t deserve to be penalised or mistreated. It is hard to mention all of the points I agree with yours because I approve to most of it. Accepting is the key to give the world less opposition.

I don’t agree with you fully. I think going that way will help and will add some peace, but it will never make it truly peaceful. People are so different, and they grow up in different environments and different societies. We all know that sometimes we judge without even knowing or thinking. It’s in our nature. Of course we can choose to not make a big deal out of it, but that urge to judge when we see somebody in a very tight dress, but a body that weighs too much so it’s not healthy anymore, is always there. We can be able to LEARN and not say anything or start conflics, but you will never get rid of judgement no matter how hard you try. 

It's completely fine to have your own opinion, if you think that this girl shouldn't wear that dress because she isn't fit enough it's your opinion and no one should try and change it. But as long as you keep it to yourself a conflict will be avoided. Her wearing that dress doesn't affect your day, much less your life, so there is no point on starting an argument about it. I said that everyone should have their own opinion, but don't enforce it on other people, as long as you don't you won't have much problems with other people.

I think that you make a good point, but think about it: if you strip away religious and political views from a person, what is left? A person’s true character. We are all born so innocent, not knowing what hate, racism, conflicts etc. are, but while growing up we learn those things from the people around us. If we teach our children not to cause conflicts over materialistic things and to accept different religions, do you think there would still be conflicts over oil and religion?

If that would work, we would definetly be one step closer to a cold-less world. But think about it that way, it is in our nature to fight for things that we think belong to us. Now if you were, let’s say, president of a country, and you had a lot of oil that belonged to that country and other countries wanted to take it away from you, you would want to fight for it because it belongs to you. You wouldn’t just give it away. 

I understand what you're trying to say, but that is the way this generation was raised. We were taught to react in that way and to fight over materialistic things which causes so much conflicts in this world. But forget that and imagine if we, as parents, teach our children to have different priorities, and to value our relationships with other people more than oil. If I was to be a president I definitely wouldn't start a war and make innocent people suffer over anything, but not everyone thinks that way because we were all raised to value different things.

I think that you make a good point, but think about it: if you strip away religious and political views from a person, what is left? A person's true character. We are all born so innocent, not knowing what hate, racism, conflicts etc. are, but while growing up we learn those things from the people around us. If we teach our children not to cause conflicts over materialistic things and to accept different religions, do you think there would still be conflicts over oil and religion?

I think that this is one of the best posts because it's so simple, but has such a strong meaning. I agree with the fact that we are all so different and unique in our own way, but I don't think that it causes tension whatsoever. People being different is so important to our world, because different minds create different things. I love meeting new people because I always learn something new, and I also think that every person has a different role in this world, just like one tree has apples, while another has oranges. Do you think diversity is a good thing? And do you think that it contributes to the fact that we can live in a cold-less world?

I love how you made me realize that there are so many things that cause this world to be cold, and how you chose one to talk about instead of trying to talk about them all which would have been confusing and maybe not as accurate. I strongly agree with the fact that in a lot of countries women are still not viewed as equal to men, and that does create a lot of tension in this world. Do you think that this is a problem world wide or just in some countries? And do you think it's because of certain cultures and/or religions or is it just simply because men feel that they deserve a higher status in society?

I think what you made is great and you make a good point, but why do you think it's impossible? The definition of impossible is: not able to occur, exist, or be done. We aren't born racist, it's what you learn as you grow up. If we teach our children to accept everyone and everything no matter if they are black or white, christian or muslim, democratic or communist, then the next generation is going to be so much more peaceful than ours is or ever were. If you take away religious and political views away from a person what will you see? of course people won't have the same opinions because we are all different from each other, physically and mentally, but if we learn to accept other people's opinions, whether we agree with it or not, we will have much less reasons to argue and create conflicts. 

I think you make a great point about how the problem with diversity is how people handle it. If we were more supporting of diversity and encouraged different ideas, there would definitely be less conflict. But I also feel that there is a difference between accepting and agreeing on something. If an idea is accepted, then is it agreed with?

There is a big difference between accepting and agreeing, If you agree with someone else's opinion it means that you accepted it, but if you don't agree with it then just accept the fact that we are all so different and not everyone will have the same opinion on a certain topic. If his/her opinion is not affecting you at all then instead of starting an argument you just let it go, because you won't change the other persons mind..you are just enforcing your own opinion on another person which will eventually lead to a conflict.