Yeah sure people have way more in common than they realize and a lot of what keeps them apart is assumptions that people from other cultures are somehow toxic and feelings of unease when they encounter cultural differences and are unsure how to interpret them and so they fallback on what is known and comfortable to explain how those cultural differences are wrong. It can take surprisingly little to bridge those gaps, but it's so ****ing easy to stay within your own bubble that it can be a depressingly insurmountable obstacle to just get people or even yourself to even try.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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