greenthinks

My latest Flickr friend is a Jordanian mac-using artist. I find it really incredible how the internet has allowed us to cross previously uncrossable boundaries. I have become friends on Skype with a girl my age from Birmingham, UK who is a Muslim from Qatar. She had never known a Jew and I had never known a Muslim all that well. We talk about our respective religions, about our lives, and about the incredible misconceptions our respective worlds have about the other.

The thing I have learned most from these interactions is that when the distractions of labels, skin color, ethnicity, and nationality are removed – something the web does an excellent job of – there is so much more connecting us all than there is dividing us.