One of the most common social problems in any society is the need for different cultures to coexist in the same territory. Here arise almost primitively rooted according to which some people feel that they are owners of pieces of land and even consider that they have the right to decide who should occupy said land and who should not.
There is not a single race on the planet that has not emigrated, not a single person who belongs exclusively to one place or whose blood is not made up of many different families. Discrimination always represents an attack on ourselves. A resistance to evolution. A very simple and easily verifiable concept would be to observe that a nation will be stronger, richer and more balanced if its people appreciate and respect the cultural diversity of all the peoples that compose it. Here lies the true unity, which is to appreciate diversity as a treasure and not as a division.
Cultural diversity is a necessary path to develop as individuals. Knowing other “truths” complements and completes our truth.
Knowing that there are other different ways of understanding life makes us relativize our way of understanding reality. Having only the option of thinking in only one way leads us to disease as a society. Mental flexibility is the key to adaptation and the most powerful tool for developing emotional intelligence.
Prejudiced people tend to project their fears onto what they judge, a classic example would be Adolf Hitler, who defended the Aryan race as superior, being of Jewish origin, dark-haired, and short… Like him, many people attack that on the other that they reject from themselves. Following the line of advaita (unity) proposed by ®, in discrimination we see another example that the other does not exist, who we discriminate against is actually a part of us.
Historically, the most invading peoples are the ones that express the most complaints and fear of being invaded.
Many races that report discrimination are socially isolated and do not want to interact with other types of people as a defense, generating precisely what they fear, and thus a loop is produced that continues to feed back to this day. Discrimination starts from fear and the rejection of a part of our identity.
In a natural system, biodiversity will determine the richness of the soil’s nutrients. Using monocultures ends up spoiling the soil. Let’s take this analogy to represent what happens with closed or isolated cultures. They remain stagnant in one and do not have sufficient “fertility” so that new ideas can grow, contribute evolution, change and progress. Nature tends to diversity and stagnates in uniformity. In any species, be it animal or plant, diversity is the factor that ensures its survival. Tolerance to cultural diversity stems from love for oneself.
“I want to continue being different and fight against those who want us to be the same.”
Albert Espinosa
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