Over the past few days I happened to visit Geneva. The city was extremely organized, clean and tidy and the diversity of the population was overwhelming. Despite all these, I couldn't help but draw some comparisons with my home country.
We are all the same species yet we we differ greatly based on our cultural background. What is considered acceptable in one country might be ludicrous or unacceptable to another. This is how morals and values become irrelevant. What we have to come to know and understand as accepted behaviour is nothing more than what we have been taught previously by those who came before us based on the arbitrary place we happened to be raised.
On a greater scale this realisation alone should make everyone more tolerant to one another yet we see the exact opposite. While we all differ and belong to a variety or groups we all have come to a point to have created our own unique identity that no one is able to understand. When people say "nobody understands me" all they mean really is that "I don't wish to be understood. I want to keep my uniqueness". Ego always come first no matter how altruistic we all wish to be.
Whereas in the past being part of a group (religious, political or otherwise) was considered a positive trait, today people view themselves within groups quite differently. For example, a religious or political individuals might side with one specific ideology but at the end of the day they would be their own heresy since their interpretation and understanding of events will differ from others. There is no single canon to be followed. No dogma can express more than 1 person at a time.
This ofcourse, does not apply from the superficial way we view each other. The human brain, in a effort to summarize information in clusters, groups similar things leaving the 'individuality part' lingering in mid air. We group all muslims the same, fans one team, people from one country because it is easier for the brain to take decisions this way. We can handle that much data so overgeneralization serves as well when it comes to taking decisions.
At the end of the day though, we are all the same. We have a specific capacity to store information. The data might be slightly different based on era, environment, situation but at the same time we all craft the same narratives whether they have to do about the betterment of humanity, love or making offspring.
Yes. Like cryptos are mostly the same: https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@greenman/all-cryptos-are-the-same-and-you-need-to-get-in-now-because-they-are-extremely-low-priced-for-the-invention-of-computational
You are a great man sir...
No, He is more than that
You're right. Funny how really we are all the same. Just little specs of the ALL here together living our own individual movies that we create through whatever it is we focus on for the purpose of experience.
Holy words my friend!
Doesn't matter what race, religion or party you are.
We are all the same!
Nice post...
Thank for sharing friend...
I agree with you We are all the same species, We have a specific capacity to store information.
please also check my new post on how-our-greatest-strengths-become-weaknesses
https://steemit.com/psychology/@isabella2k18/how-our-greatest-strengths-become-weaknesses
Thank you very much for sharing your experience with us.it's really great.keep it up.go ahead.keep sharing.hope everyone like on this.thank you.waiting for your next post.
great your psycholoy post
We are all same irrespective of religious, tribal or cultural affiliations. Very true fact indeed!
Well elaborated
Second paragraph you double typed the we word. Nice post regardless.
So in a way I am just like kendall jenner? Cool
Nicely said. I imagine this like a pie chart. Each person has a unique pie chart. In person A, the religion pie chart might be 25% while person B's religion pie chart is at 50% thus it seems person B is more religious. Nice.
Had to a acquire a few brain cells before i could understand and appreciate what you said here.
Once a man sides with a particular ideology, then he is slave to that thought. Which is what makes us all different and the same. It's quite hard to actually single out an individual in today's society who is actual unique, because in the end we are all the same, with either the same skin, allegiance to a particular ideology or even similar habits. Even our DNA's are not that different.
We are all the same indeed. It is when we choose to be selfish and inhuman that we show differences.
We are all different. We are all the same.
Deep lines. Loved them.
Usually, the people who most insist that they're "not normal" are, in fact, the most normal of them all. Women especially do this a lot.
Well being a student of Sociology i do feel every society has it's norms and values so the behavioral traits are originated from those norms, mores and value system of a specific society.
I am also convinced that we all are the same with one origin as whole, with egoistic approach towards life.
A very well versed and researched article, thanks for your contribution @kyriacos
I am really looking forward to hear more from you :)
Stay Blessed, Steem On!
I actually find it better, the diversity and cultural differences in different countries. The way they think and act differently about different things. What if we all were same, we all have same culture and languages uff cannot even think of that. We all have been just an army of humanoids nothing more :)
i don't know but i would argue and believe that we are still all different that each other. We should have same narratives about certain things like freedom,democracy, betterment of humanity and in general of the world but the history and the now saw as a completely different picture and anyone can just look their own neighborhoods and understand it
Understanding the question you are writing about should make people more tolerant of each other. Unfortunately, the opposite is true. We simplify everything and this property leads to bad results. Do you remember your article about the chess player-feminist?
https://steemit.com/news/@kyriacos/grand-master-chess-player-refuses-to-defend-her-title-in-saudi-arabia-she-is-wrong
People tend to draw conclusions based on their understanding of reality, not taking into account that there may be ten alternative points of view.
I agree with you. Good publication!
Religion,race,nationality all of these factors doesnt matter at all because we are all the same. Whether we are divided by our faith and beliefs we are still still living on the same planet and coexisting with each other. What we truly need is to embrace respect in all aspects because even if we are different in some ways we will always be one.