I dream of a world where nations do not pride themselves in how far they have gone into developing (nuclear) technologies that could wipe another country or the entire human race in a twinkle of an eye, but will rather compete based on how well they have improved the quality of life of their citizenry who do not live in constant fear of a neighbouring country. A world where technologies developed in more advanced economies can be marketed to undeveloped countries to deal with hunger, killer diseases, environmental pollution and climate change. The most damage done to the environment comes from the more developed countries while the least developed countries face the greatest challenge as a result of damage to the same environment.
I dream of a world where people will not be recognised by the colour of their skin, where you are identified as either African, Asian, American, Indian and not 'black', 'white', 'Negro'. In my opinion, racism will never be seriously dealt with if we still identify and call people by their skin colour. Addressing people by their skin colour will only evoke thoughts as 'black' meaning 'dirty' or 'white' meaning 'clean'. It will only make some people feel they are better while some feel less-human. We choose to say America's first 'black' President when we could have also addressed same as 'African-American'.
The world they say is a global village. More and more, business, tourism, career and such like have made people from different ends of the earth now closely knit together. People now relocate to different parts of the world for education and work, where they usually will meet people from different parts of the world. In a bid to settle down in their new location, many choose to marry and raise their kids in their new-found home. I dream of a world where people can marry freely across nationalities, continents, race or creed or religion without such events making the headlines or engendering forfeiture of one's privileges. Inter-tribal marriage among citizens of the same country still cause some people to raise eye-brows up till now! not to mention marrying someone from a different country or even continent. An American lady was once deprived of her stipends, personal savings, Car and even tuition by her parents because she was engaged to an African - American. Same way a lady in the UAE will lose her citizenship if she marries someone who is not an Emirati, not even her children from such union can secure the UAE passport or be eligible for any of the government's welfare benefits.
I dream of a world where some nations do not prosper at the expense of others under the guise of aids, funds and grants which eventually leave the aid-receiving nation much poorer than it was without the aid because it has to finance this debt on and on. A world where 1 unit of a country's currency is worth 5,000 units of another even though the latter has the diamond and gold reserves is not my idea of a 'balanced' world. Natural resource are not explored in a smaller country, exported overseas only to return same product (although processed) to the originating country at cutthroat prices.
Am I dreaming of heaven? See my next post.
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