I dare suggest that cultural recognition not be limited to experiences of oppression in pursuit of reconciliation; (un)wittingly internalizing and branding images of weakness upon people. Recognition, more than equally refocused on positive contributions to human history, will empower everyone.
A reduction in Black History Month's obsession with slavery for an increase of information about humanity's recorded Prehistory will unite us with reverence for our early humans. We'll have come a long way baby when we admire equally matters of cooking and matters of finance. Rather than funding the recognition of the internment experience, recognize, hone, and disseminate successful aspects of the Italian-Canadian experience as a roadmap to immigrant integration. These lessons will strengthen Canadian identity, synergies, and multicultural harmony. Simply not defaming the waters and forests will offer more economic benefit to indigenous communities than cash bonuses for living through an ethnic round up. And practicing democracy, legislative due process, and our Charter of Rights and Freedoms is a better time than fighting class action law suits.
Attention to the achievements and attributes of positive experiences will unfold solutions, opportunities, and synergies. If your focus is fighting something, someone, and you spend all your energy calling this thing - it will come into your life. Leave it. Do not ignore it. But leave it far from your passions. Protect your values by indulging in them. Be the undisputable example of their good. Through your joy and solid calm shall others also pursue a like path toward their own light, their own contribution and experience.
Dance; enjoy it. Smile. Engage in your communities. Indulge in your families. Share. Talk. Discuss ideas about life. Improve yourself, your work, your actions, and your energy. Be kind. Be healthy and strong. Share information. Document experience. Diffuse to those who may not already know what you can see so clearly. Speak with them a common language of shared human experience. Focus on solutions. Highlight opportunities. Disseminate too with the choir, empowered by communal confidence in the goodness of people and value of peace.
The Rhythm and La Runa.
Sabrina Di Marco
August 20, 2010
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