VALUE OF DIVERSITY (In Response to Ladda's First Blog)

Differences in culture. This is where Ladda's first blog zeroes in on. I do subscribe to her opinion that American life in general is totally different from everybody else's cultural life. As an exchange student, I say it without ambiguity and exaggeration. Indeed, culture varies from place to place. That is it's nature.What I find beautiful may be ugly in the eyes of people from the US or Laos. However, this kind of thing is never negative. This is normal. As a matter of fact, difference in culture is what makes the world colorful and meaningful. If everything is the same, there is no more room for exploration and discovery, realization and excitement. Thus, the world becomes monotonous and dull and we stagnate.

We need diversity particularly in the cultural aspect. It is an essential factor that shapes our present life and the future. It's value and beauty should be inculcated within each and everyone of us. I do believe without qualm that all people, belonging to different nationalities and races, speaking variety of languages, possessing different colors and nurtured under dissimilar field of discipline, are held to be one and indivisible nation. We are created not to be strangers to each other but to get to know one another, not to be enemies but to be friends, not be individualistic but to work together, not to be part of the problem, but to be part of the solution.