2/2/2021
Week5
Response to"Cultural Paradigms Insights"
How we can be united in this world of different interpretation, views, lifestyles, ideas, opinions, beliefs and values? I remember when I was in my younger days, I often get bullied for my slender body and my short stature. In the Philippines if you are like chubby and you have a wonderful body form it means you have a lot of food in your plate. Your parents literally taking good care with you attentively. I am the opposite version of all of my sisters. I remember when I attended a family reunion one of my relative asked to my father like this: Is she one of your daughters? with the end of saying to himself this word “in the family there is really one that are different” or some will question, are you eating? I use to heard these repeatedly questions in my head for so long. These questions stop me in going any gatherings I’ll rather choose to stay at home and to read books.
When I moved to Japan my life turns dark into white in
terms of physical acceptance. Here in Japan, you are beautiful if you have a
slender body and cute in stature. I feel accepted and a sort of belongings but
my beliefs was changed when I studied about cultural differences and
similarities, I believe that actual satisfaction and happiness came from
believing that everyone around us has his/her own beauty and that we’re fairly
uniquely blessed with unique talents from our Loving Heavenly Father who
created us all. The ability to choose what we believing is extremely important
to our development and finding true happiness and identity. The understanding
of the truth of our true identity of who we are and why we are here could unite
us as one. We are beloved sons and daughters of our Heavenly parents who inherited
their divine qualities and potential. We are part of His wonderful plan of
salvation and happiness. The culture of Christ is the only culture we can be
united as one family, as we look into Him as our leader, creator and advocate
to our Father in Heaven.
Hi Gerwin, insecurity and low self-esteem are the impediments to our personal progress. I believe the adversary has created this tools to influence our minds with negativities. What we feel bypasses what we think and usually the opposition is sabotaging both. I believe our mind is powerful to make a significant change in our lives, as how we feel about the world we live. Adversely, these can also impede any potentials to greatness.
ReplyDeleteObtaining a shift of mental setups is gratifying when we equip ourselves with the right conditioning and realign our notions to things worthwhile. Indeed, the gospel of Christ is the perfect culture we all need to master and live. Thank you for your space here to express my profound thought.
Thank you John for your substantial and powerful comments!
DeleteWith all the culture differences between countries, there is one culture that I love the most and wanted to dominate. It is the gospel culture, where everyone is equal in the sight of our Creator.
ReplyDeleteHello, Ann you are absolutely right. Thank you for your comment.Take care !
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