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SoCultures November 2018
Culture Café
solving conflicts. To develope and grow a high quality of culture, it needs good
education of each individual person. If that isn't possible for everyone then it
should be taken care by the others, the society, the government and anyone who is
able to help. The cultural education can be spread not only with material products
but above all with love.
 Do you think in today’s globally connected scenario, cultures can be main
agent to bring in the positivity and peace?
It's a mystery for me how much negative power can grow in humans by one's own
choice to destroy and kill other human beings. I feel that in most of the cases it’s
also due to the political and sociological problems.
It's not a supernatural power. It can be achieved by learning from each other,
integrating thoughts, technologies and also religions of other cultures for
expanding horizons and improve problematic situations. It's wonderful and
stunning how people are different but also much similar to each other and how
much beauty exists around the world. In our technological present it's not difficult
to interchange the most important and intelligently ideas for creating a better world
and so a harmonious globally culture. It needs more education of loving and
respecting each other.
 The biggest culture shock you ever lived?
When I had been in The Holy Land, in Israel and Palestine I had gone through a
really cultural shock. Especially in Gerusalemme (Jerusalem) a holy, treasured but
also fought over place by three great monotheistic religions and rebuilt again and
again over the years. There, every stone has a story to tell of events that it had
seen… words and voices it had heard. But the inhabitants of this much-contested
old ---- Muslim, Christian Armenian, Jewish live so happily and raising their
families with much love. I compare it with many parallel universes which exist
without interacting and barely respecting each other. But I’m sure that there are
intelligent people
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