We humans have to learn how we are seen by others who live in places until recently unknown, or who have moved over the planet and are now neighbors. And this necessity to look out of our windows will only increase.
Whether they like it or not, peaceful, well-intending westerners are held co-responsible for mass killings by western armies. Peaceful, well-intending Muslims are held co-responsible for terrorist attacks by Jihadists and cruel punishment systems in Muslim countries. The peaceful majorities can hide and say they cannot reduce the violence, but that will be increasingly rejected by the other side.
It’s high time that we all wake up and understand how we are seen by others in this globalizing world. We will increasingly be reproached, justified or not, about wrongs committed by people who are seen as associated with us. Instead of complaining about such reproaches, we better start learning how to help reduce those wrongs for which we can be hold responsible by outsiders.
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