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i see you

this is the new 'i love you' as i watched avatar on 3d with mae and joel today.
while i was watching the movie, i realized that it is very related to intercultural communication, one of the classes i am taking this semester. we have always wondered why wars happen, why contact among cultures lead to violence, etc. the movie clearly answered the question.
in order to understand better the lives of avatars, jake sully lived with them, learned their language and their ways, how they see themselves and the others, at least within the omaticaya clan. this made him understand them better. he found out that they are one with the earth and that they feel a certain connection with their environment so that "the destruction of the Hometree could affect the bio-botanical neural network that all Pandoran organisms are connected to."
this is how we should do it. to better understand the people of other cultures, we have to respect their beliefs. however strange they may seem to us because we have our own, the operative word is respect. their ways may seem different and strange for us, but they feel the same towards our own ways.
i can also relate all these to what we do with mother earth. we are all selfish bastards who want to get all that mother earth has to offer. we have become so greedy that we have abused our environment. this is the main reason why nature is acting up. too much rain, too hot summers, droughts, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis - these are mother nature's way of coming back to us.
RESPECT. it all boils down to that.

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Angelo said…
Hi - i was wondering if it would be okay to send you a screener for a police drama on tnt. Let me know! agianni@youcastcorp.com
February 10, 2010 at 5:38 AM
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