From the mind of critic: “If jews and muslims are so different, how come the countless things they have in common, are pushed aside in favor of their few differences? If blacks and whites, mexicans and whites, asians and whites, arabs and whites, muslims and hindus, muslims and christians, jews and christians, muslims and buddhists, hindus and buddhists, americans and europeans, americans and africans, africans and europeans, middle easterners and africans, gays and straights, young and old, if we’re all so different from each other, how come we focus on the 10% of things we don’t agree on, instead of the 90% of things we do? Is it because it’s what we’ve always done, and we’ve grown comfortable with it even though we know it’s detrimental to our personal evolution, so we stay with what we know, instead of what is unknown even if we know we’d benefit? Or do we stay using old stereotypes because we believe they’re true, and the people that won’t admit that, are the ones blinding themselves and holding up progress? There are probably a milluion different reasons that differ from person to person on why we focus on our differences, instead of our sames. Maybe we’re scared of things we don’t know, which turns into hate because we think these people who don’t look, act or believe like us are out to do us harm. Maybe we’re not used to interacting, let alone conversating with people that are on the other side of the political and/or religoues spectrum than us. Maybe we know change is hard, and it’s so much easier to say something once in a while, but then go back to the same old thing we’ve always done. Once we realize that our different ethnicities, looks, religions, sexual prefernces and politics is what makes us unique not different, we’ll see that we may all have different paths to the light, but it’s the same light. I could go down the list of all the similarities of these supposed opposing groups, but it would take a book in and of itself. I’ll just say that most generational and inbedded conflicts can be solved by realizing we all wanna be loved, respected and honored. Only then can we flip the conversation to start from where we agree. and work and evolve from there” 🙂