Living Together

Almost every community is composed of different people with different background, whether it's difference in skin tone, culture, language, or religion. However, despite of the differences between each other, we still live in harmony in the same community. It's true that in some cases, different people fight each other and they have violent disputes that are settled with blood feud but still, there are many communities that lives in harmony. Take the United States for example; the US is one of the most diverse countries in the world regarding to race, culture, or religion, because the country is built on freedom. The US is often referred to as a melting pot or a cultural mosaic because it has such a diverse culture. A miniature example would be a school, especially in international schools, where people from all over the world can attend the school therefore adding more cultural difference into the school. The bad side of living together with people of different background is that the minorities are often discriminated for being different than the majority of the people and it can really hurt the feelings of the people discriminated upon. Also living in harmony can cause trouble and bad racism. For example, because of the Al-qaeda and the 911 terrorist attack, muslim are depicted and seen as being bad and evil and seen as the same people as the people that performed the terrorist attack when in reality, only about 1% of muslim are terrorists.