Are people of the world more alike than different, or more different
than alike?
I think that people of the world are more alike than they are different. I believe that we are more alike in the sense that we all have the same emotions, the same basic humaness. Our differences are things that come from our situations and how they are raised. I would say that we have the same basic needs as the people of the world. The obvious ones, like air, food, and water are there but there are also others, like belonging and friendship. We just grow up in a different situation. If you look at the people in the video's of the LRA, or Rwanda that we watched, they expressed the same emotions that we do, and the same love and protection for their families that we do, but they expressed it in different ways. Their situation is what makes them different from us. Them being in such a horrible situation, without much order is so different from our living in the United States. The children that they made to kill are not that different from us, except in their situation. The people in the book Wide as the Waters want the same things we want today in democracy, but they would seem very different people living in a very different century. There are lots of examples throughout the year, being that we studied the lives of so many people.