Whether it is tribalism, racism, xenophobia, or anti-Muslim backlash we're talking about, we spend so much time and energy fighting ways to divide ourselves from others.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.
Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
I feel like our culture is so good at pulling other people down and being so judgmental, but there's space for all of us to be who we are. There's space for us to celebrate each other and root for each other and not take each other down.
We've got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions.
Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.
Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.
What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common - which is - we all want to be happy.
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