the chart showing incidence of abuse
I would love to see the same study done from the masculine perspective. It's just equality :)
I know I was one of those people talking about the preservation of language and culture - but since we last had that conversation, I think that some elements of some cultures (yes, I'm being selective) - don't "Add value" - but that is probably not the point.
When humanity, regardless of its culture, cannot unite for a common cause (let's use rising sea levels, the consequences of human use of carbon emitting devices, and a reliance on other things that aren't necessarily good for us to tie together the social fabric - coffee, alcohol, violence) - we become divided.
Yet we have the same struggles. We have the same calorific and nutritional needs. Our hierarchy of needs is the same no matter how our tongues and throats and lungs shape the emission of air from our mouths.
Maybe we should have these cultural boundaries until everyone can have some sort of humanity-citizenship test, as opposed to ones that are lines on a map, or a book with some pages on it and a logo. I couldn't care about who did this, or did that in the past history of a nation in order to have the "right" to live there, just because I wasn't born there.
I'd much rather have the "right" to live somewhere other than where I was born based on the positive things I can bring to the community I seek to contribute to - because - guess what, at the end of the day, we all create a burden - a need for nutrition, a need for sewer, and a need for water, power, and the other modern conveniences that we have.
There are probably a few out there. This was just one that I have discussed with people over time. :)
Yes. So we should probably spend more energy on the massive overlapping base that we still struggle with, than on the edge cases that are irrelevant for our core.
And because of the burden we create on the "world" (all the different aspects, we should be held accountable for the value we bring to the world, what we improve, how we engage, and whether we add more to society than take away.