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Xenophobia, Or Hate Your Neighbour Like Yourself

 
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PostWysłany: Pon 6:03, 18 Kwi 2011    Temat postu: Xenophobia, Or Hate Your Neighbour Like Yourself

eek before I went there, serious xenophobic attacks broke out and sadly, many people met a violent end.
I was asked by friends in the UK if I thought it was wise to go there, and my respond was yes, of course, because South Africa is a country with forty 4 million caring, loving, hospitable people, and one million people that characterize our black side.
The daytime afterward I arrived the Sunday newspapers were full of news about the consequences of the attacks. The converge was on people that had gone out of their direction to assist the victims of the attacks. Some people hazarded their lives and the safety of their properties to adjust families that they did not know. Those people saw guy brothers and sisters in need and did not even think twice about approaching out. Their main converge was to clear children from violent positions and cater shelter in places that were already bitterly cold at night.
I peruse about one family that immigrated to South Africa twenty years antecedent. They carry South black passports and the children do not know variant country alternatively culture. They had lost everything - their sustenance, their memories, but luckily not their lives.
During the week in South Africa, I met many kin and friends, and of course this heading was being discussed all the time. What struck me was that the discussion was approximately "them". "This has nothing to do with our world, besides that it made us careful when driving to work." All the sufferers of the xenophobic attacks were black, and this touched a white world only in the sense that it was newsworthy, confirming what "we" "understand" and think, and every once in a while creature inconvenient.
I often must unravel why it is essential for me to love entire human that I encounter.
"Yes, the Bible says that you must love your neighbour like yourself, yet certainly we prefer our neighbours? Surely we choose the neighbourhood that we live in, based on our socio-economic status? And people that have a lower socio-economic status are in that sense not our neighbours? I average, they smell and pilfer and annihilate, for goodness sake - don't be so nave. And while we go to cathedral,Business Coach Bags, we associate with people that deem and muse like us. Of lesson we love them, but it is important that we associate with like-minded people. They are our neighbours, nothing else. We will love our neighbours on our terms,/coach-shoulder-bags, and we will persist to elect them. I average, fair look at these xenophobic aggressions. These people cannot possibly be our neighbours?"
Is this alter somewhere in the world? Sadly, not. In England the hoodies (young boys and men who wear jackets with hoods that cover their heads and mask their faces) are "not our neighbours". The chavs (council house, combative and turbulent - as whether anybody of us had a absolute life up to immediately!) are also "not our neighbours."
Even in 1 of the maximum civilised countries in the world, Switzerland, a Macedonian woman was recently refused citizenship for the third period. She has lived with her husband and went in the country for thirty years, heaved her children there, and speaks the language fluently without a track of one emphasize. After appeals, the regional administration had instructed the local council of inhabitants to award her citizenship, but they flaunted this and turned the third applying down, on the basis of "not enough integration". Apparently she likes dressing bright colourful clothing and jewellery, and that is not the local custom. Do her neighbours love her?
I am sure you will find samples of this in each country and community in this globe.
So who is our neighbour, and why should we love them?
I define my border as everybody namely crosses my way, simply because I am conscious of them. It is a challenge apt define everyone above this planet as our border, simply for we have constraints apt our consciousness. It is too practical for me to adore the neighbour that crosses my path.
Some people come into our lives for short periods, for ex


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