Last night Emily & I went to the 10th Annual Family & Friendship Night, put on by UNESCO. UNESCO, in case you are unfamiliar with it, is the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. The name comes from the first letters in United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization. Basically, their motto is something like "Since war starts in the minds of men, it must be in the mind of men that the seeds of peace are sown."
The essential goal of this organization is to keep peace by helping different countries see each other as people with their own distinct culture and not as problems. If you can see a different country as people like you with a different culture, peace and understanding will be the result.
I'm not so sure I agree. If all people from every culture are willing to get along, you could likely work out some sort of functional relationship. The problem comes when people unaccustomed to compromise enter into the whole international relations field. That's just asking for problems.
For example, one nation (which I shall allow to remain anonymous) presented their flag and described their nation as "the super hero of the free world." Boos ensued. A comment like that does no one any good, and just aggravates problems that already exist.
Other than that, it was fun to see the different nations, languages and traditions represented. Our friend Matt did a couple of Christmas songs solo on his guitar, and he did well. The food was late, but (unfortunately) the dinner was pushed back nearly an hour due to thing after thing going late.
In other news, we have our Christmas tree and Christmas lights up in our apartment, as well as some miscellaneous decorations. 'Tis the Season!
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