While our differences are often over exaggerated, so perhaps are our similarities. We are different. Cultures even locally can change the way that we think, the way that we behave, and the way we perceive the world. We’re not all the same, our differences are radical, and meaningful, and important.
William Blake wrote that “the apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow” because ultimately apple trees and beech trees are quite different, they produce different fruits. As the Chi-Lites sang, ‘if everybody looked the same, we’d get tired of looking at each other’.
A world that is homogenised is a boring world, a place or space where everyone thinks the same thing is depleted. There is enough truth out there to go around, enough places to stand that we might all get a different perspective.
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