Difference. "What makes us different" is a question that is constantly asked, but I think maybe the question "which differences matter" is a little more pertanint.
So answer that question. Which differenes matter? Does it matter that my favorite color is green? Does it matter that the only TV I watch is Gery's Anatomy? Does it matter that I'm a democrat? How about that I support the war in Iraq? Do these things matter?
Does it matter that over two million people have been affected in the Darfur region, located in Sudan, in the last four years alone? Does it matter that they're Africans? Does it matter when it's called genocide? Does it matter when it is genocide?
Differences. Schools and grades and shoes and grenades. Does the last one fit in? Maybe not here, not in Louisville, KY, not in the United States... but in parts of Asia, parts of Africa, parts of the world that we don't think about, not on a regular basis, and for many of us, not ever... yes.
An article about children. Which children? Does it matter?
"300,000 --There are an estimated three hundred thousand child soldiers around the world. Every year the number grows as more children are recruited for use in active combat.
Here you can listen to these children explain how they became soldiers, what stops them from leaving and how some have managed to build new lives for themselves."
Go here:
Children of War
For the Rest.
-peace
So answer that question. Which differenes matter? Does it matter that my favorite color is green? Does it matter that the only TV I watch is Gery's Anatomy? Does it matter that I'm a democrat? How about that I support the war in Iraq? Do these things matter?
Does it matter that over two million people have been affected in the Darfur region, located in Sudan, in the last four years alone? Does it matter that they're Africans? Does it matter when it's called genocide? Does it matter when it is genocide?
Differences. Schools and grades and shoes and grenades. Does the last one fit in? Maybe not here, not in Louisville, KY, not in the United States... but in parts of Asia, parts of Africa, parts of the world that we don't think about, not on a regular basis, and for many of us, not ever... yes.
An article about children. Which children? Does it matter?
"300,000 --There are an estimated three hundred thousand child soldiers around the world. Every year the number grows as more children are recruited for use in active combat.
Here you can listen to these children explain how they became soldiers, what stops them from leaving and how some have managed to build new lives for themselves."
Go here:
Children of War
For the Rest.
-peace
1 comment:
the main differences in relation to what is being addressed in this article is the reactions these things receive. For example, shoes might get a complement or no response at all while social justice issues like Darfur might get heated debates and protests.
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