To get peoples of diverse cultures and backgrounds living together peacefully we have to invest in attitude transforming exercises that appeals to equality, respect, honesty, peace,collaboration and tolerance.
To precipitate a strong atmosphere of tolerance and dialogue, we have to bring to their notice the A.O.A value of coexistence. That is Accepting One Another. Do you know that the peoples of the world have not had any genuine relationship from which they could be motivated to live peacefully together.? We have spent our precious time warring and struggling to conquer and dominate one another; to a large extent that, the fear to coexist overwhelms all other things. Consequently we have lost the touch and love for each other. To restore this love and live peacefully we have to appreciatively understand our neighbors, and also tolerate their weaknesses.
We should not judge others by civilization, wealth, race and religion before we can apportion equal rights, respect, dignity, friendship and cooperation.
Even if people from different cultures and background are living together with us in our society, there is a way we can make them happy without necessarily losing our advantages and happiness. To begin with ,we have to make it a point of duty to be lenient rather being offensive with people different form us. And if a misunderstanding arises we should rather dialogue instead of excluding or discriminating against them as if they had no worth and dignity..
Though it might be difficult at first attempt to accept a “foreigner” considering that man has weaknesses. Take an example like temperaments. We all have different temperamental traits, some people exhibit choleric tendencies while others exhibit phlegmatic and sanguine tendencies, it will be difficult to live together with these behavioral differences if we do not choose the way of tolerate and dialogue as a starting point to discover what we share in common with people different in culture and background from us. To put up with your neighbor who is different from you is to say in other words that you accept , appreciate and recognize his/her individuality. forbearance is one of the ways we can avoid polarization and violent clashes when we find yourself living in diversified environment.
The C.O.V value of coexistence which calls for Complementarity of Variation can bring people of different culture and backgrounds into peaceful coexistence. People will love to live together with others from different backgrounds if their authorities elucidate diversity and its relation to complementarity from the right perspective to their people; which is in earnest the creation of complementary partnerships in the work of peacefully coexistence and joined effort in reaching universal happiness. To earn peace people have to adjust and re evaluate their hidden agendas to line up with continuously appreciative requirements of all peoples in the globe, when we milk a cow dry to make another cow excessively fat, shortages and want will be apparent. It is the fear to fine one’s self in one form of lack or another that causes certain societies to decide to discriminate and exclude other nationals from their main society.
What government and peoples should do here is to adopt comprehensive policy reforms that make requirements for maximum productivity according to the individual measure of their divergent population. What this means is that societies should create opportunities which encourages people form different backgrounds to interact in their society with an established opinion that they are contributors in the socio-economic development of the society and not parasites. They should look at possible ways of making relevant to the main society’s development even the most unskilled labor present. This is an excellent way of avoiding instances of exclusion and encouraging peace in societies where there are people from different backgrounds and cultures living together.
As the people of the next century youths have a special stake in peaceful sustainable future and a particular role to play in the creation of dynamic multicultural societies.
Young people can contribute to the creation of dynamic harmonious multicultural societies by developing the right D.R.M.E. that is the right mentality and education which sees eye to eye to the existence of multicultural society. Such education and training should take the form of human rights and peace education at all levels of learning. Without which young people will hardly be able to bring about social change.
In addition young people can also engage in multicultural interchange and exchange activities, the M.I.E.A. One way of going about this is to create sustainable multicultural relationships with youths from different parts of the world. To share common interest, experiences and practices ,young people can organize conferences and workshops to discuss issues of peace, racism, refugee, famine and how they can collaborate using a multicultural approach to provoke changes in these areas. During conferences also, young people can organize cultural exhibitions where they can display diverse cultural paintings, unity poems and other multicultural artistic works that could help persuade the world of its oneness and bring it together.
Apart from this, young people can also practice dressing in the costumes of other cultures, learn their values and get involved in volunteer exchange for specific cultural promotion and concord.
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Finally, young people can contribute in creating dynamic harmonious multicultural societies by coming up with a Youth Socio-economic Alliance and Cooperation plan- (Y.S.A.C) of action with an intention to give prospects and hope to other youths in their country. It can also take the form of socio-economic multicultural cooperation by youths from different backgrounds and cultures to give assistance in the form of food, clothing and other basic necessities to youths in war torn, famine and drought areas like Iraq, Palestine, Israel, Sudan, Cambodia and Ethiopia. As youths carry on this activities they will be closing existing socialization gaps and also making a positive impact in creating and sustaining dynamic and harmonious multicultural societies.
To achieve this goals I have proposed a project entitled Our Coat of Many Colors. With the acronym O.C.M.C.
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By Stephen Nkem Asek
Global Network for Good Governance /Youths.
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