A World View
The world has enough for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed. Mahatma Gandhi.
Whether we are in Toronto, Toledo or Timbutu, we truly are living in a huge, global village – interconnected, interdependent and demanding that we broaden our world view.
Our smart phones and You Tube have knitted us together like a pair of giant knitting needles. There is no escaping, no averting of eyes.
A world view is a set of expectations and biases we form that shapes how we see and feel about people in other countries and, indeed, even in our own cities and neighbourhoods, each with their own world views.
We are not the same, of course. Our cultures, religions, educational backgrounds and societal differences can and all too easily easily make strangers of us if we let them.
Still, as the world continues to shrink, times get tougher and borders become more porous, more than ever we need to open our hearts, broaden our world view and make room for others.