So what about the people? (world cultures)

[truthseek]

We are living in very Interesting times; with much more toil and trouble yet to come before the murky waters will settle into a new, hopefully positive, vision shared by humanity (...I'm not talking new world order).

We've created a world of judgement, prejudice, war, politics, religion and division. We practice our own discernment and perception of events that are happening or have happened around us, and this is how we tend to view and perhaps shape our lives.

Hence, I'd like to start this new thread "So what about the people" to highlight the many different wonderful cultures around the world without the judgement of politics and religion.

I commend the many youtubers who are travelling around the world and are documenting their down-to-earth interactions with the people of the countries they are visiting. I'll start with this inside look at the people of Iran.

Please share your own findings/video links on this thread. Hopefully we can navigate through the propaganda machine (no matter which side you're on) and recognize some spiritual unity amongs the majority of humanity.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ib7HZKNMEmA

[Valknut3301]

I recently discovered the Geowizard on YouTube, a Brit named Tom who travels around the world (mostly Europe) and has various interesting adventures. Most of his excursions are what are called 'strait line' missions, where he tries to walk across a country in a perfectly strait line, but he doesn't normally have many interactions with people during these. Other times, like in his 'Tenner' videos, he ends up relying on locals quite a bit to just have enough food, or even find a dry place to sleep for the night. He meets some of the nicest people, who are willing to give him help, and you get to see a lot of the parts of countries you don't normally see in the media, the regular people and how they live their lives.

This is part one and two of his Austrian 'tenner in my pocket' videos, where he travels through the Austrian countryside with only ten euros in his pocket.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hEgRFcISdRY

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9mhdjKgj4GI

[shaberon]

Posted by truthseek (here)
We've created a world of judgement, prejudice, war, politics, religion and division. We practice our own discernment and perception of events that are happening or have happened around us, and this is how we tend to view and perhaps shape our lives.

Hence, I'd like to start this new thread "So what about the people" to highlight the many different wonderful cultures around the world without the judgement of politics and religion.

It happens in English-speaking countries.

Religious judgment mainly happens in places affected by Abrahamism.

I am in a pickle because I have to stamp down the non-culture of the fake plastic land I live in, where, I am afraid, about half of the population around me are ignorant bigots.

I don't think you posted this to rack up additional complaints; let me try to put it this way. As soon as I could walk, that's exactly what I did, towards anyone who seemed friendly. And for at least ten years, that was all I found. I still remember it, because it was very formative. I met kids and adults from all over the place, from India, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Finland, until my first sort of pre-pubescent girlfriend was from Venezuela. We knew a family of Russian Jews. And that was because, once upon a time, America was like that.

I've met a single Iranian, from whom I bought a musical instrument that was hand-made in Azerbaijan. It's sitting right over there.

But, I've barely ever traveled, and not to those "exotic" places, just Mexico and Europe.

The cultural difference I have is certain things from Asia came to me. That is what I feel I am actually a part of. And one thing I can say that is different about it is that we think in terms of lineages, which instills a type of pride and respect that is entirely absent, and, I would say, unavailable from anything American.

I strongly agree this kind of open-ness to others is a better way of civilization. At that level, I have no religion or politics. For example, I'm not sure how many Jews I've known, I just saw one of them today, and we have never discussed Judaism whatsoever. They had no agenda to push. It has to do with treating everyone about the same and politely.


I read an explanation recently that there are no "primitive people", in the sense that while there are lower technological levels, a primitive language has never been discovered. Humans are generally aware and alert enough to think, and even become interesting, regardless of their background.