LEARNING & UNLEARNING FROM PEOPLE

LEARNING & UNLEARNING FROM PEOPLE

Dear Friends,

Life is a process of learning & unlearning lessons indeed!

When we grew up as children we learned many things consciously or unconsciously from our parents, family members, neighbours, village folks, town people, city dwellers, country men, teachers, gurus, religious leaders, political leaders, ministers, administrators, directors, managers, people from other countries so on & so forth ...

Many of the lessons we learned during childhood became useless or obsolete by the time we crossed our teens!

By the time we are in the prime of adulthood, again we find things that we learned before were misguiding and were not in the best interests of our life!

Then, when we started doing researches on the prevailing world traditions / cultures / histories of the world, we realise that our world could have been a much better world if we didn’t do/follow things that we did/followed before!

So, this article is all about the progressive life journey for anybody who gotta learn & unlearn lessons from the people around the world for a better life today & tomorrow.

Here, let us go ahead LEARNING & UNLEARNING from the people around the world as follows:

To Learn & Unlearn from Indians

To Learn: Vegetarianism; Tolerance; Humility; Hospitality; Non-violence; Yoga; Meditation; Peace; Contentment; Detachment; Renunciation

To Unlearn: Slave mindset; Superstitions; Idolatry; Temple Worship; Religious Rituals; Inferiority Complex; Treating of Foreigners as gods; Beggars; False Renunciations; False/Misguiding Gurus/Babas; Slums; Child labour; Child Marriage; Corruption; Blind Following of its Rulers of the past; Caste System; Dowry; Hypocrites; Poverty; Too much unwanted population

To Learn & Unlearn from British

To Learn: Discipline; Keeping of time; Explorative nature; Preservative nature; English Language; Obedience; Loyalty; Sense of humour; Business skills; Decent ways of enjoying life; Controlling of colonies; Education; Intelligence; Self-interest; Community life

To Unlearn: Outdated Monarchy tradition of queen; prince; princess still now! Racial ego & prejudice; Divide & Rule policy; Exploitation; Selfishness; Enslaving people; Unwanted discrimination; Encouraging of religions; castes; classes to divide people; Insincerity; Double roles; Elitism; Vainglory;  Alcoholics; Living in the past

To Learn & Unlearn from Americans[USA]

To Learn: Freedom; Entrepreneurship; Human Rights; Democracy; Unity in diversity; Secularism; Global mindset; Global leadership; Spirituality; Support for truth & justice; Researches & innovations in Science & Technology; Supporter of world peace; philanthropy

To Unlearn: Started as a country of masters & slaves; slaves starting to dominate the country by now; Blind support for religions/rituals/dogmas of other countries & even following them blindly; Females losing their feminine qualities; Prejudice against some countries; Too much in defence budget; Waste of food; Too much consumption of flesh food & fast food; Obesity; Too much dependence on cars & fossil fuel

To Learn & Unlearn from Japanese

To Learn: Quality consciousness; self confidence; self esteem; philanthropy; high standard of living; cleanliness; dutifulness; spirituality; technical advancements & quality products; humility; loyalty; sacrifice

To Unlearn: Too much materialistic society; Competitive & stressful lifestyle; Exploitative attitude; Colonial crimes; Suicides; Corruption; Outdated monarchy tradition; Costly living

To Learn & Unlearn from Germans

To Learn: Highly industrialised society with quality products; High standard of living; Self esteem; Physical beauty; Technical advancements

To Unlearn: Egoistic & Racist; Genocide crimes of the past; Competitive & stressful lifestyle; Materialistic society; Offensive nature

To Learn & Unlearn from Swiss people

To Learn: Beautiful people with diverse European backgrounds; Unity in diversity; English spoken by all amidst multiples languages; Good nature; Warm & loving people; Good standard of living; Balance of material & spiritual progress; Green environment

To Unlearn: Costly living

To Learn & Unlearn from Chinese

To Learn: Hard working people; Cheap labour; Good humour; Simple living; Community life; Fast adaptation; Manufacturing hub of the world; Emerging world super power

To Unlearn: Indiscriminate Food habits, mainly of flesh foods; Lack of personality development; Lack of personal freedom; Racial conscious people; Too much population

To Learn & Unlearn from Russians

To Learn: Good & beautiful people with warm & loving nature; Big plans & projects; Technical advancements

To Unlearn: Quantity conscious rather than quality; Conservative & isolated nature; Materialistic society

To Learn & Unlearn from Africans

To Learn: Life in nature; Simple life; Hard working

To Unlearn: Slave mindset; Unhealthy traditions; Lack of personality development; Internet scammers

To Learn & Unlearn from Muslims

To Learn: Love; Unity; Peace & Brotherhood among Muslims but it should be extended to the entire humanity not only Muslims alone; Avoidance of intoxicants; Faith in God [Alah]

To Unlearn: Fanaticism & Jihadi mindset & destructive actions around the world; Suppression of female rights; Prejudice against people who are not Muslims

To Learn & Unlearn from Tibetans

To Learn: Meek & humble nature; Obedience; Non-violence; Adjustments; Adaptations; Loyalty to Leader

To Unlearn: Work is worship and so a lifestyle of so called Buddhist monks wasting time chanting mantras & rotating wheels alone will not help much to make & maintain a progressive society. All people should work & live a self reliant life. Buddhists who are the followers of Buddha, the epitome of non-injury; should not consume flesh food. Tibetans should either demand for a separate Tibetan Nation or live in China adjusting the Chinese National rules & regulations. They should stop creating unnecessary nuisance in the world around, by now.

Happiness for all!

Regards,

Goodman

for HAPPY WORLD SOCIETY

PS: this post was originally written by Goodman on 15 February 2013