2006-06-27 09:14:03 · 15 answers · asked by Benny Boy 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Take a look at all the people that answered your question.We are all living in different places,backgrounds,races,religions...
Are we not living in harmony with each other?Respecting each others answer.
There are more people in this world living in harmony with each other than we realize.
2006-06-27 12:56:57 · answer #1 · answered by timelord1962 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What has the multitudes of efforts by governments and politicians produced so far:
1. United Nations - they haven't been able to unite the world or stop the wars.
2. Citizenship and racial prejudice laws - these are now being labelled as too cumbersome, and racist in themselves by encouraging positive discrimation.
What's really lacking is knowledge of who we are and knowledge of God.
From Vaisnavism (the original root of Hinduism) -the Bhagavad-Gita scripture is the only religious book which doesn't discriminate between races or try to inform anyone that they are the chosen few or slaves of anyone.
The Bhagavad-Gita teaches us that we are eternal spiritual souls who take on material bodies. As one body dies the soul moves onto another body as a person changes clothes. Therefore the essential teaching of the Gita is that we are not this body, we are not Indian, American, African, Hindu, Muslim, Christian etc or for that matter male nor female.
Identification with the material body is just the start of discrimination because soon we identify with family, society, town, city, state, country, nationality etc. This discrimation also extends to animals - e.g. those claiming animals have no souls. The Hindu scriptures tell us that every living entity is a soul occupying different bodies according to its desires/actions.
When we learn our true identity and our relationship to God we can then learn to live in harmony with others and our surroundings.
Examined carefully with a discerning eye and intellect, we can see that almost all attempts to cure disease, eliminate poverty, famine, wars and hatred have failed. The Bhagavad-Gita teaches us that all ventures become successful when done in relation to God. It advises step-by-step how to do this.
2006-06-27 13:26:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they don't force their culture on others or don't think their culture is the best one. It always drives me mad that some people just create prejudices for themselves out of nothing, just because they want to. I live in UK and I love seeing many different cultures here and I hate the way they isolate themselves, like they live in a box and won't get out. I'm not suggesting that everybody should marry a person of different origin, but why can't we just be friends and get along and try to learn something about ourselves?
2006-06-27 09:32:42 · answer #3 · answered by La 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If everyone stopped talking about acceptance and just did it it would be a better world, but until all of us start looking at people for what they are, Which is JUST PEOPLE, we are never going to get there. I am not saying we would all the sudden be best friends but there would be a difference. But then again we also have to work on education, poverty, universal health care, and a slew of other thing. Until we do all of that you are just going to have to do what you can with your own actions and try to teach your children to see what we haven't and try to give them the tools to make their own change.
2006-06-27 09:39:58 · answer #4 · answered by Sara 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By loving and accepting one another regardless of our differences. The greatest impact you can have on another person is to show genuine love towards them. Love breaks down barriers and creates unity and harmony.
2006-06-27 09:25:21 · answer #5 · answered by lovely 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live in harmony with people from other races in my area and we all get on great, it's called friendship.
2006-06-27 09:17:21 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am an american citizen born in the usa and am married to an immigrant from Indonesia. We are celebrating our first anniversary this weekend and have been together for over two years altogether. During this time we have not yet had one fight.
2006-06-27 09:19:20 · answer #7 · answered by tw0cl0n3m3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just enjoy each others company and do not try to make a problem out of something that does not matter.
2006-06-27 09:20:40 · answer #8 · answered by snag 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they can but only to a certain extent. everybody is different, even people from the same background don't often live in harmony...... life is brutal....
2006-06-27 09:18:53 · answer #9 · answered by flickfatty2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we all have got to learn to just get along with each and to agree about everything would b great but i dont think thats ever gonna happen u cant keep everyone happy all the time
2006-07-03 22:15:32 · answer #10 · answered by gin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋