World peace is impossible!

Clara (Jung-Hyun) Kim
(Age 14, Korea)

How can people with different cultures, religion, race and nationality learn to live together, without hatred and prejudice? Can we live together? Is it possible for us to live in a multicultural universe?

Ever since I was little I have been wondering if these questions will ever come true. This is why I believe writing this essay is one step forward to helping our people, our friends and family, our future children to live together without prejudice and diversity and live with tolerance and love.

At the age of two my family moved from South Korea to New Zealand. As I was so young I grew up as normal kiwi girl, apart from the eyes, skin tone, hair colour and my parents couldn’t speak English properly. Although we spoke Korean at home I still felt as if I was kiwi. I grew up with my friends since I little, this was probably what made me feel kiwi inside. In kinder-garden I didn’t know anything would change. When I got to primary I used to get bullied by the boys. Teasing me and calling me names

“Asian! Asian! Go back to your country with your ching chong eyes.”

These words made me cry and upset, but later in my years I accepted that I was different. My friends would comfort me but I always knew I wasn’t that same as them. I always knew there was a line between me and the other kids at school. I knew there was diversity. I accepted it, but WHY? Why should I accept it? Why should we accept diversity? We shouldn’t accept this awful thing called prejudice and diversity! God made us all the same, we are all human. This is why I believe we need to make world peace and live side by side with people we don’t even know how to pronoun their names.

World peace. World, The inhabitants of the earth; the human race. Peace, Freedom from quarrels and disagreement; harmonious relations: roommates living in peace with each other. (www.dictionary.com)

World Peace is the human race living in freedom from fighting and disagreeing.

I truly believe if everyone in this universe believed in world peace we could make it happen. It is those who do not care about others, it is those who are greedy who ruin the chances of world peace. If we all try and help a little, we could make it happen. This is a very complex task, it will not happen over night. It takes time and patience.

One step closer to world peace would be learning to live together. The first step to living together would be accepting others into your life, accepting people from different cultures into your life.

Accepting people into your lives would be great but can we do more? What kind of projects can young people start? How can young people contribute to help the world become a multicultural place? I have always wondered if I could start world peace but then I realized that it is already beginning. In the olden days there was a strict line between black and white, now there can be both. I don’t think there is anything we can do that will dramatically change this prejudice world into a loving, tolerated family. Love would be the most important step. If we all love each other and get rid of hatred we are making world peace. If everyone learn to love each other and talk to their foreign neighbour across their house they are learning to live together in globalized societies. Talk to the kids at school who don’t have friends, become their friends. Talking to someone on the street that seems lonely, ask them about their country. One little chat is the biggest step to making world peace, it is the biggest step to a multicultural family.

“Learning to live together: promoting tolerance and diversity in globalized societies.”

Living together in a globalized society is not an easy task as a whole universe; it will take time but is an easy task for individuals. One small chat, one small good deed is all it takes.

People believe world peace is an impossible task, I believe impossibility is an impossible task!