Having been born in France to a French father and a German mother and
having lived in France and Germany and traveled to many places in
Europe, I see myself as a world citizen, not so much just as a US
citizen even though I obtained the US citizenship and I love America for
the most part. I really find it odd that a person must have a
citizenship.
Are they afraid that if more people saw themselves independent of a national citizenship they lose control over them?
What if I simply wanted to be a citizen of the world? Why do country
governments want to take ownership of a person, why do they try to say
that you are not patriotic, if you don't fall in line with traditional
doctrines. What are they afraid of? What is wrong with loving and
learning about the world, other countries, other peoples?
That
does not imply that I agree with all these other countries and like
everything they do, but it opens the door to dialogue and understanding,
when you learn about them and that is a good thing in my book.
I am far from being a person that glorifies other cultures. I was
raised by a step father who was an Armenian from Turkey and I learned
lots of great things about Turkey because of him, but also not so great
things. The patriarch attitude toward women and girls under which I
suffered as a child for example. The sexism so to speak. Bad people live
next to good people all over the world.
I praise and I
criticize anyone and everyone, if I feel I have to do so in order to
bring attention or speak my mind, and I back it up with facts, that's
what I try to do.
I like a lot about America but there is
plenty not to like too. I have lived in other places so I see things
from different perspectives. Sometimes when I meet people that lives in
one area their whole live, never traveled, I find that they can be very
prejudice and boring really. I really feel a bit sorry for them. You
have one life to live and the vessel is so empty at the end of the
journey.
I honestly can't say that there is any country in the
world that I think is GREAT or PERFECT. All countries and cultures have
the same common threat that often ruins everything. "TRADITIONS"!
There are nice, fun, innocent traditions that make life colorful and
exciting and differentiate one country from another. But many
"Traditions" are nothing more that actions based on prejudice and
ignorance and superstition, that involve abuse and oppression of some
life-form, race or the opposite or other sex.
These
"Traditions" are upheld and spread by, as I call them "The old Guard"
who is actively brain washing innocent children in to their thinking,
and the as I call them "willful silent" of the world, who are inactive
and stand by out of fear or inconvenience, let things happen.
I
won't count off all the "Traditions" that belong on the trash pile of
History, if you follow me you figure it out, or all the countries that
have them because the list is too long, just think of a country and you
probably right, starting with your own.
The indoctrination in
to these horrible "Traditions" takes place on the family table at dinner
time, activities during so called family time, activities during
vacation time, in our heads where we abandon compassion, logic and
common sense, and when we don't stand up and raise our voice to what we
know to be wrong. Silence is as destructive as actions are, inactivity
is complicity.
I am encouraged by the young faces in the crowds
all over the World that I see, especially of Animal Rights Activist
groups, the children that are fighting too, standing next to their
parents, generations fighting for the planet, the flora and fauna that
is part of their future.
It gives me great pleasure and hope to see that.
