What to do with our inherent differences?

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readJul 26, 2021

Question from the Internet:

“Why is difference so stigmatised in society?”

Due to our inherently self-justifying, subjective, egocentric nature we don’t understand, don’t trust, we fear those who are different from us. Those is the basis of racism, discrimination.

And since in our generation our selfish, subjective ego has reached its maximum potential we can’t handle differences at all while our unique individual, national qualities also stick out more.

This is truly tragic, since in a globally integrated, independent world we would need to unite, cooperate above and despite our differences — which differences we can’t suppress, erase.

Still, as we don’t know how to solve this problem we try to stigmatize, erase our individual, national, cultural differences which only invites the opposite, a violent rebound effect, which then make certain people to try suppressing, erasing the differences even more.

This is why we need a unique, purposeful and highly practical educational method, that can teach us — based on the examples we find in Nature — how to preserve, cherish our differences and learn how to provide the most optimal, perfectly contributing, complementing places for all in humanity’s integrated, living mosaic.

https://youtu.be/HhoTCiNrdW4

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Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.