Readers Against Prejudice and Racism discussion

What do you think would be the cost of having World Peace? Do you think that we may have to give up some of the rules we have established in society or give up some traditions we may have? Or do you think there is no cost to having World Peace?

Krishna wrote: "I think that no cost is required for world peace. Rather our money will be saved. That money must be spent on education, food and health."

I agree! I think that less money would be spent on wars and more would be spent on actually providing health care and education to people.

Ronyell wrote: "What do you think would be the cost of having World Peace? Do you think that we may have to give up some of the rules we have established in society or give up some traditions we may have? Or do y..."

Today, I read Yoko Ono says:

"To make peace a reality, you have to first imagine it. You have to visualize it. I think that if 99 percent of the world imagine world peace, I think we're going to be able to do it...There are some people who say, "We're facing doomsday" or "This is not going to happen." But we don't have to do that. We just have to understand that it's going to be great if all of us together wish for it. You see already what's happening -- around the '50s and '60s, people really admired people who went to war and killed people. "Oh I killed 20 people." "Oh my god, that's great!" or something. Now people don't feel that way. People feel it's much nicer if all of us will be peaceful. I think our common knowledge has changed a lot."

Brian wrote: "Ronyell wrote: "What do you think would be the cost of having World Peace? Do you think that we may have to give up some of the rules we have established in society or give up some traditions we m..."

That's a really great statement!

Ronyell, the only cost is in what must be given up. I feel humanity has to see the falseness of cherished ideas of racial and national identification. World Peace must exist in the mind and heart of the individual first. Then it is easily expressed in life experiences. Humanity is already one thing, but understanding what we all are has a price. It hurts to give up ideas about each other established by society. World Peace through global unity is the only solution.

Brian wrote: "Ronyell, the only cost is in what must be given up. I feel humanity has to see the falseness of cherished ideas of racial and national identification. World Peace must exist in the mind and heart..."

I agree with this. I think the reason why it's so hard to have world peace is because many people already have this established idea of what they think of other races and cultures based on what they see through the stereotypes of that race and culture. I think if people start seeing outside of the stereotypes of other races and cultures and actually see that group for who they really are, then we could achieve World Peace a bit easier.

For me, the key is to see that there is really only one group, humanity. Superficial physical differences are a genetic lottery and have no meaning. Culture is just an environmental influence. A child from Ghana adopted at birth into a family living in Beijing, will dance, eat, communicate and dress like people in China. The one thing that unites all humanity is what we really are: consciousness or our unique human awareness. All human experiences universally happen inside of it. The human mind does not want to identify with consciousness because it seems so vague and indescribable. Our unique way of perceiving, of looking and listening, is the essential nature of every human.