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| For the sake of these kids, I protect the pic by closing the eyes |
The last November 15 was a big day for our school since we celebrated UN DAY. We knew that it's a little late, but we just couldn't make it at the right moment. We thought the concern was that we tried to celebrate it.
It was different from last years celebration. This year celebration, we focused on the dance of the country we represented. My class got middle east and I chose the dance from southern part of Egypt I got after searching ones in YOUTUBE.
And... I had that honour to deliver opening remark on the D-Day. Here is the short speech of mine.
"Peace
and God blessing beyond you all.
First
of all, I’d like to say thank you to the head of the school and the chairman
who give this honorable chance to represent this school and to share a little
bit about what we know about UN Day.
And
we’d like to say welcome to our honorable guests and parents. And to our
beloved team mates, the teachers and students, you did beautiful team work.
There
are 196 countries in this world. All the people live in different culture, come
from different races, practice different religions and beliefs, but we tend to
forget that we have one purpose in this life, to live in peace and harmony.
We
can’t actually deny that so many wars and tragedies we have today, in this world due to our
incompetency in understanding those differences. We’ve come to realize that all
those differences among us are beauty and bless, but at some point, in our
daily lives we tend to act the other way around. We do labeling, judging,
blaming people not because what they do, but from their race, countries, or
religions.
Today,
we want to lead our kids to a stage in their lives where they actually aware of
these cross cultural facts.
We want our kids to be wise in living life and face the differences, and later
on when they grow up, to deal with conflicts that may be caused by the differences
and solve it in healthy way. We want our kids to understand that we are all
one. We are all family.
No
matter where we are from, no matter what color our skin are, no matter what
religion we practice and no matter what state we stand in believing something.
We want these kids to believe that those have nothing to do with the way they
treat people.
Today,
these kids are going to representing the dance from different part of the
world. Here, we can learn something that it is obviously not that hard to
understand other people, just like it is not that hard for those kids to learn
the dances from other cultures in less than two months. We all can live in
harmony if only we can start to understand that we are all born different. Even
ears on one head are different.
Last
but not least... I’d like to quote a statement from a very remarkable man who
is known for his wisdom and tolerance. He said these words for Round Square
Campaign October 1996, in South Africa.
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| Though we come from different countries and practise different religions, WE ARE ALL ONE PEOPLE |
