Our world is of diverse cultures, peoples, customs, living habits, food habits, earning habits etc. Chinese noodles may not be the right food for the Indian stomach. Tribals, who have built their food habits of all varieties of animal meat, resist being told that they cannot eat beef because one religious group worships the cow. Nor can dress habits of one community be imposed on others. So, too, concerning many such matters.
Is the world becoming a place where dictators and Big Brothers rule and their freemason zealots have their way to impose their likes and dislikes on others? It appears be so when one looks at the reality. In India people are told they have no freedom to worship, freedom to eat what they like, or freedom to marry the partners of their choice, and like.
Our free space is shrinking. It is made to shrink by the powers that are. Our personal freedom is restricted. Our privacy is under surveillance. Our intellectual freedom is under attack. Rationalists are killed in the open. The fag of fundamentalism is threatening to destroy people and their culture.
There needs to be open-minded dialogue for cultural freedom. Narrow-mindedness has to give way to large-heartedness. The World Day for Cultural Diversity
For Dialogue and Development invites all of us to be open-minded in appreciating people’s diverse cultures.