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Trans-Cultural Study Guide

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Outline: This book has been written to stimulate the imagination. To make other life-ways more comprehensible. That is our hope. Is it really true that all people are bothers and sisters? We think so. We all laugh and we all cry; we all have our dreams and our disappointments. Yet this ancient idea, as old as mankind-appearing in sore form in all the world's religions, and written into the charter of every international organization - is often forgotten in times of crisis. It seems that we lack a certain solid familiarity with the ways and dreams of other peoples. The smiles of children in another land kindle a warmth within us that can bring us to the point of almost really understanding that word, brotherhood. Yet this warmth is quickly dissipated by the cold steel of wartime, by the military solution. How soon we forget! But can we really expect to embrace the unfamiliar on faith alone, without real understanding? Our friends and those we love, by and large are not rice farmers. So long as we cannot begin to imagine life as a rice farmer, we cannot fully understand and live out the idea (with all its implications) that all humans comprise one humanity. Brotherhood remains an abstraction too large to comprehend, too vague to act upon decisively, too intangible to make sacrifices for, too distant for the effects to be seen. The fears that motivate the military solution will continue to overwhelm our feelings of brotherhood. A need for compassionate understanding is what concerns those who put together this book. It is designed to be a guide to study, observation, inquiry, and contemplation. We hope it will lead to a more thorough examination of another study, of another people, of another way.

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Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

306.072 D225t c.1

Penerbit

: Volunteers in Asia., 1977

Deskripsi Fisik

155

Bahasa

English

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Klasifikasi

306.072

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Edisi

Second Edition

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Info Detail Spesifik

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

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