Monday. 10.9.06 7:46 am
Hey there,
was going through my old junk and found some really old essays you guys can read through (more than 4 years old man)... Expect more as I go through them...
Green Plate Ambassadors
In its definition, an ambassador plays the role of representing his country. In this pretext, it is necessary that he stands with high reputation, drinking champagne on cocktails and eating caviar, wearing a black tuxedo or the national costume, well-spoken and a charming representation of his origin. But lets face the facts. He can be the most urbane person in the crowd but the masses think of his countrymen otherwise. The person with the blue plate in the embassy is the communications bridge between the foreign country to his origin. Not his character.
The stereotypical image projected about us really comes from us, or at least the image comes from our most accessible fellowmen out there, or the most popular. We still have to admit that in the end, people still judge the book by its cover. Sad but true, those stares have their inner voices projecting what they think about us based on either their own or extemporaneous experiences. We all work on a utilitarian and based relationship. On the primary level of concern, our relationship with others is based on our interdependency and our mind’s impression on that person’s image, be it from rumors, experience and history. This is our way of taking into consideration how the other person will act in future relationship events.
Let’s take a step back and look at the logical perspective of our reputation. People base their impression from what they hear about us (extemporaneous experience) and what happened in their lives (personal experience). These impressions have to come from the person who they have met most frequently or at least once. It is the regular foreigners out there who actually come in contact with the world that brings this reputation out there. And if that is how we are generally perceived, there is some truth there (vox populi est vox dei). It is difficult to bring to them the fact that every country has many cultures that each have their own general characteristics, worse, it is harder for them to take into justice the idea that every person has a different characteristic from the other. For in all justice, we too think the same way.
Amidst this dilemma, how do we represent ourselves? By being our best. We should shine out our leadership characteristics, show our responsibility and they will change their way of looking at us. If we try to convince them by word, we just wasted calories and seconds over soundwaves that does nothing. Better chant, it has an effect instead.
Aside from our leadership dimension, we should shine out our spirituality, ethics, and other characteristics that make everyone else look up to us as models. It is best to be emulated as a role model. Just as how Gandhi is to the world. Even an individual who shines out can change something.
Just as good reputation can be made, so can the bad. We should not think of riding on to the others who do good. Each and every one of us has a responsibility over this concern. We want to be looked at as leaders, philosophers, scientists, and such who have the highest regard for God and the world.
This is also our way of explaining Hinduism, by ACTUALLY PRACTICING IT. Once we can realize the sayings in our actions, others can too.
We might not be exempted from color coding, or carry a diplomatic passport, but we do still represent our country. We should carry our flag in our hearts out there. We have a lot of flowers to give.
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