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78. “Schools should be required to teach the essential interconnectedness of all human being and thus help eliminate wars, culture clashes, and other forms of conflicts.”
There is a general discussion nowadays about the issue of effect of essential interconnectedness of all human being. Some people argue that it is necessary for schools to teach the interconnectedness of human being in order to eliminate wars, culture clashes, and other forms of conflicts. While others believe that such conflicts exist objectively and cannot easily be removed by such effort. As far as I am concerned, I agree with the former due to the following reasons.
In the first place, all forms of conflicts such as wars and culture clashes are the consequence of misunderstanding of each other. The culture of oriental and western countries bears too much difference than similarity. It is difficult for a Chinese who has never learned about the western culture to suddenly get on well with a westerner (to get on well with a westerner in a short time), and the Chinese may regard the westerner’s behavior as mystery and even feel it unacceptable. For example, one professor in my college who (was) retired last year had just returned from California where he visited his son, an eminent young executive in a big company at Los Angeles. To our great surprise, he exhibited no happiness on his face for (from) this journey. After a careful inquiry, we learned that his American daughter-in-law requested him to move out of her house and to live in the hotel, in that she would like to hold a party at home on Friday evening. Under this circumstance, it is because our kind professor who has just received the Chinese tradition concept of family in all his life, which regards it is natural for parents and their children to live together and considers it absurd and huge indignity to ask a parent (to) move out of his son’s house. (our kind professor who has received only the Chinese traditional concepts of family all his life, regarded it natural for parents and children to live together and considered it absurd and a huge indignity to ask a parent to move out of his son’s house) On the contrary, if our professor realized the western habit (custom) that people call violently for independence and freedom, he would perhaps not get so angry.
In the second place, almost all the forms of conflicts are, to a certain degree, able to be harmonized if it is properly and rightly handled with. As for the definition of hero in some field, different countries would greatly have distinguishing conceptions. One gifted Chinese CEO of Legend Corporation name Liu Quanzhi has once said (and I paraphrase here), “We Chinese people are willing to pay attention to individualism, while the Japanese are inclined to lay much more emphasis on teamwork.. therefore, it is a big mistake for a Chinese boss to reward privately his Japanese employee who exerts predominant contribution on a project, and this unwise behavior may lead to the other employee volunteers to resign together, because they would suppose it must be their fault and impotence that results in no reward which other takes. And further worse, the man who attain reward would resign once he knows that he is the only one who gets reward and his colleagues have left already, for he might believe it must be his undue behavior that leads to his colleagues' retreat.” Because of profound understanding this, Mr. Liu always hands out bonus publicly and averagely, and his employee work more hard (harder) together in a team, which would no doubt benefit the interest of the company.
There are still other aspects relevant to the issue under discussion, which, unfortunately, I have no time to explore in greater detail here. However, above discussed reasons (the discussed reasons above) should in a large sense justify my conclusion that schools should lay much emphasis on the teaching the interconnectedness of all human being, which, though perhaps not completely, would, to a greater extent, reduce the wars, culture clashes, and other forms of conflicts.
同意楼上的话
另外,例子可以叙述简省点 |
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