To paraphrase the words of Wade Davis, ethno-botanist and Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic, while we have been flying to the moon and inventing the microchip, it’s not as if other cultures have been idle: they have expressed their latent human ingenuity in different ways. “But we are educated in the things we know,” said Daquoo Xukuri, a Bushman from Botswana. “We can pass our knowledge to the rest of the world.” It is also about tolerance of their choices, for perhaps the true meaning of what it is to be “civilized” lies not in accruing power and wealth but in respecting the differences of others and accepting the value of human diversity. “The world needs human diversity as much as it needs bio-diversity,” says Stephen Corry.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 03:56:47 +0000
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