The postulation has been that acculturation will deepen friendliness and harmony among human societies. Yes, if in your professional journey, you have lived in Kenya for some years, there is a high chance that working in Mexico, and decisions about Ghana come up, the exposure to the Kenyan society will shape your calls. And with the internet making societies local and global at the same time, one would not have expected the level of paralysis that we’re witnessing around the world. Ukraine and Russia. Ethiopia and itself. Yemen and itself. Serbia and Kosovo. North Korea and South Korea. Taiwan and China. Nigeria and itself. Etc. Etc. This is not a video game; the world is sick!
What is going on? No one knows because the world order is cracking. Everyone to his or her tribe and that commanderies that engineered the defeat of covid-19 is gone. When the village cooks for you, you have no chance to finish the food, but the village can handle anything you bring. G7 which has run the world order for years may be struggling to eat all that the world is cooking. It may need help because everything seems to be cracking.
I call on the United Nations Secretary General to do more to put common sense in this world. The web was expected to make us understand one another, for peaceful co-existence, but the outcome is that the world is becoming more tense!
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Comment 1:I see only three men in the conversation table. The other man might just facilitate the meeting. Somehow, the UN has been reduced to a mere facilitator especially when these three men are talking. Sad. Unfortunately, the world is sick because no one is able to talk sense into these guys. When Putin is constantly demonized by western media, I can not help but laugh. Some of us still laugh when we remember Cuba, Iraq and Afghanistan. And I think Putin and Xi also laugh.
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In one word: RESPECT!
It’s something that is seriously lacking, so it has led to creation of classes, good and bad peoples; and all these are based on few people’s worldview and opinion.
The folks in Palestine, who really cares about them and where true justice lies? Of course the better part of the world have been made to believe that they are troublesome people, while the Israelis are the good guys and endangered species too. This has been the narrative for decades, but is that really the truth about these peoples?
The guys from North Korea, are they good or terrible humans? We have no idea, but we are told that their leader is crazy, and perhaps that craziness permeates the entire country, and therefore all of them deserve to suffer!
We created 1st, 2nd and 3rd world countries, how did we arrive at these? And why are those in 1st world permanently there while the ones in 3rd world are always there, who is responsible for moving those in 3rd place to 2nd and then 1st? Some who believed that they are powerful and enjoy plenty privileges, rigged everything against the rest, you cannot have peace when such is the case.
Iran is more democratic than both Saudi Arabia and Qatar, but the latter two are viewed more favourably…