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Cultural Encounters

Living in a world of questionable morals and ethics.

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Waking up to this world we live in is surprising… I wish that there was not a day where I look at what is trending on Facebook and see some shooting that happened or something that is some how news worthy becomes top major news. We live in a world where we automatically assume things about each other. We are quick to point fingers to blame, but forget who the real victims are. We focus on the bad, but never or hardly on the good. I get that we live in a harsh world, but We are the ones who painted that picture.

We are quick to defend ourselves against the outside of the borders we have drawn. But, when something happens inside these lines we divide and create civil unbalance. A person gets a “slap on the wrist” sentence for committing sexual assault, but flip the script and change the story what would happen? life sentence? ten to twenty years? would there be a total uproar? How about a person on national television get exposed to committing sexual harassment multiple times, but ends up getting the victim edit instead of getting a first class ticket out the door and off the show. But, here is the catch a different person gets kicked off the same show, just by throwing a microphone into a pool? sound unfair right? well it is. The only difference is the first person’s defense was that was how they were raised. Yeah no baby is born a sexist racist except it does not take much common sense that a person does not want to be touched or be played around.

People are quick to put the blame on the government. Sure sometimes they emplace policies that we may not agree with. But how about when they change the law that LGBT are now free to marry or LGBT history is now being taught in schools in California? Oh what is that? There is an uproar, no surprise there. People saying why is this being taught in school instead of religion? Well, not everyone is the same religion so every student would have to learn all the religions in the world, which from my understanding is impossible but some schools do teach what religions there are in the world just not all. But people are getting caught up in their own minds they forget the major message: to learn how to accept one another and coexist.

People are quick to jump the gun and assume, succumbing to xenophobic remarks left and right. Does nobody realize that there is usually more to the story? People come to this country to press restart and start a new life from the corruption they have experienced. I am no expert in social sciences… but I am a person who is tired of living in this world we live in. When will we live in a world where we start to appreciate each other instead of killing and assuming. Dividing ourselves from the outside lines but can not keep the inside lines united.

I may sound like another entitled millennial, but when will you sit down and listen to world around you? Because not everything as it seems, and the morals and ethics we may grew up on need to change because we are not loving thy neighbor. We are giving labels and criticizing each other for what we think we are. When we should be coexisting.

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