Celebrate the differences...

This post is based on an idea presented by Shri. Rajiv Malhotra in a video I watched recently. The idea is that most of the problems of the present world is because of differences. Human beings inherently look for a "commonness" in anything, and any difference or deviation is perceived to be bad. Many many problems arise due to these differences. To sort out the "differences", the difference is forcefully turned into something in the "commonness", or the source of the difference is itself destroyed. e.g. If somone proposes a radically out of the way different idea in a committee, unless someone else shares the same idea in common, it is very likely that the idea is discarded or on insistence, the proposer of the idea might even be removed from the committee. But the point we miss here is that diversity is the way of nature. Nature supports differences. It has led to evoluton as many theories propose. So many of the world's problems would be solved if we see the differences as a inherent attribute of nature and view the diversity not as a deterrent but as a natural manifestation. We could sort out the differences by "Celebrating the differences", rather than uprooting them. By this we develop tolerance and mutual respect to others and the diversity of nature. We don't thus expect everything to be in the common way and this margin for differences makes us better human beings. Differences lead to evolution, for the better if we accept them!!!