February 22, 2023, 4:29 AM
February 22, 2023, 4:29 AM
What is the opposite of strange?, trustworthy. Stranger also has the relative meaning of someone who lives or is in a place where they are not a neighbor or where they were not born, now, the foreigner with the intense flows of refugees especially from Africa, the Middle East and Asia is subject to discrimination and racism and , racists are strange as well because they know less than they should accumulate as knowledge.
Why do racists consider differentiation of color as something inferior and despicable? Racists do not understand or rather do not want to do so in order not to live in a balanced world that values integration and in that imbalance racists will always be strangers as long as they isolate themselves even though deny their proclivity to this disagreement between humans who fight for equality and the banishment of prejudices.
The strange manifests itself in people as anguish or fear of settling down definitively in a society exempt from color differences, discrimination of opportunities and racism generated by an unfathomable feeling of superiority that leads to deep-rooted prejudices.
The poet-philosopher said: “I am another and I am a stranger”, that sociological expression must be understood not as a contradiction in expression and grammatical construction, but rather as a perception that the self must build a symbiosis with the neighbor and the stranger, in such a way that the individual leads a life free of prejudices and valuations of skin or ethnicity, on the contrary, to consolidate a spiritual balance as a strength.
It is an offense to ourselves when we do not order ourselves in our own imperfection, since the self would continue to be cultivated with the degeneration of narcissism. It is vital that we know exactly how to describe ourselves, precisely so as not to allow ourselves to be impregnated with influences that may come from the family, from the same circle where we hang out, and from society.
The reciprocal look with the neighbor would be enough to motivate and establish a relationship free of prejudices from which an interaction of feelings, virtues and always good actions will arise, protected by solidarity.
What does it mean to face the strange? When we interact with strangers we should see them not as a risk or a danger but as an opportunity to exchange ideas, affinities and contradictions that leave behind a teaching; For this reason, borders should not be set for a small or massive population group, because we unconsciously isolate ourselves and isolating ourselves is synonymous with terrible loneliness.
Should we be indifferent to other people we consider strange? When we have freedom of thought, we can act with indifference before the persistent taboos understood as the prohibitions of doing something or talking about something based on prejudices or social attitudes; a contrary attitude is to demonstrate a true identity.
