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Another world is coming.
If you listen very softly,
very carefully,
You can hear it breathing.
But what matters….
is the choices we make
and whether you get involved.
The majority is always racist.
And you know why? Because they are at home
You see a stranger,
He sees…
23 millions of strangers.
The behavior of an individual
changes accordingly to the place he’s in.
Too often, different cultures,
different nationalities
can be a source of conflict when...
We don’t understand each other.
When we don’t feel our needs are being met.
God helped me...
to understand the value of humankind.
which is not necessarily given
by ethnicity, by country, by culture.
It is given by the fact
you are human.
Human beings all over the world
and human beings in this room
are different!
All humans are at core the same.
They all have the same good essence.
All that is necessarily
for evil to succeed
is for good people
to do nothing.
This is what happens when
we stop being careless.
Wonderful things could happen.
And this is what I ask each of you
Don’t be careless!
Because you will never know
What impact you will have
In others life.
In a child’s life,
in a woman’s life,
In a man’s life.
You never know...
Or, in a community’s life.
In my journeys, I go for people,
to meet people.
Did you really go?
Why did you go there?
It is called Mal'd'Afric(k).
Very few asked me for something.
But everybody gave me something.
We shouldn't wait for society to do everything
It is the responsibility of each of us
to maintain this climate of understanding
Just think about this for a moment:
I, tolerate you.
How did that sound to you?
I ... tolerate you!
I don't have to like you
I am not intrested in you
You can be thankful to me
That I tolerate you.
Tolerance.....is not enough.
What needs to prevail so that a community coexists
Is respect.
We are not full rights only
We also have full obligations.
Basically, all the obstacles which are set by ourselves,
because of our preconceptions
All, can be demolished.
In the final analises
Our areas of agreement
It's far wider
than our areas of disagreement.
In the moment to start to know new aspects
about each other
and we get to better know the other
We go beyond the stereotypes that
most often.....
limit our vision
and restrict even the first element
which can lead to collaboration,
namely, dialogue.
Borders?!....
I have never seen any.
But I heard they exist…
In some peoples’ minds.
When different cultures,
different people,
different experiences come together
and what we feel...what we experience,
isn't fear...
...but this... wanting to know.
Creative thinking is born,
not from the source,
but from confluences.
The value of the tributary is added
and so, the notion of influence appears.
I have the honor to present you
the message of His Royal Highness,
The prince Radu of Romania
addressed to the Festival of Arts and Multiculturalism, from Cluj,
first edition, Oct 2011.
The exchange of thoughts, of feelings and experiences,
trough annihilation of geographic and language frontiers,
is one of the most important gesture
of humans nowadays,
delusively connected to the other, through internet connection and airline companies.
European cultures
doesn’t require to be invented.
It needs to be helped to circulate.
I belive,.....that ....Cluj...and Romania,
certainly is on the road to a better tomorrow.
Today we live in a global village.
like John Donne said:
"No man is an island into himself
We are all part of a whole.
The interaction with people,
can build bridges,
that automatically destroys prejudices and stereotypes.
It’s time to stop and think a bit,
so we'll not wake up one day,
very few and very lonely, onto the path of history.
Multiculturalism loses it's meaning
in contexts such as those presented here
if it’s not strengthened by active citizenship.
The main objective of the foundation is
is changing negative attitudes of the majority
against Roma ethnics.
Are there negative attitudes against Roma in Romania?
There are blinders we are wearing
and they make us feel comfortable.
But when you take them off,
You can not sit indifferent.
They ordered and..and when they saw the boy
coming out of the restaurant’s kitchen
they just got up from the table and left
just because
He had a darker skin
And that meant he was of Roma ethnicity. 0:06:08.32,0:06:11.10 People under 30 with high degrees
discriminate the most.
and in particular Roma people.
My first case was a woman...
18 years she lived in anguish.
....and she said to me: Mihaela,
18 years I did not know the meaning of peace.
I did not know how is to wake up happy,
with Your children, in the morning of Christmas...
I did not know that...
Actually, if you tell people they should not be racists,
they will do nothing but continue to discriminate.
Some brochures, or a speech
won’t be enough and we all know that.
For a person to change his/her real attitude
He/she must see and understand,
the fact that things can change.
The fact that he/she can change something
and what we did in Ferentari (REACT) shows that:
where there is will and one gets involved,
things can change.
Information does not replace knowledge.
It’s not the end of history.
history is alive and kicking
it's living every..single.. day
and your choices...
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