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Continuing with my Positive Flags of the Nations
project with a tribute to change the Human Family. We all belong to the human race no matter what colour, creed or sexual orientation, since when do we need to judge one another rather than to accept and embrace one another?
People have become educated but have not become human.
Abdul Sattar Edhi
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‘race’ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.
Margaret Atwood
Who are we as human beings if we ignore the suffering of others?
Anon
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Maybe we as the human race need to be invaded by hostile extraterrestrials before we can all unite as one. "We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore."
Anti-racism educator, Jane Elliot.
"If you spit skywards, it’ll end up on your face."
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"ئاسمانغا تۈكۈرسەڭ، يۈزۈڭگە چۈشەر"
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"对别人傲慢就像吐向空中的口水，最终会回到你自己脸上。"
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- met him in #Hotan #Xinjiang
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“Life is like a fruit. At first, there is a blossoming flower, your mother who gives you birth. Then you start to grow and absorb the knowledge, like water from the ground that flows through the trunk and the roots, your family. If you fall off the tree too early you become rotten. When you become ripe, it’s when you have to make the right decisions in life. Some of us slowly dry on the sun and some of us don’t get enough sunshine. If you look at fruits none of them are equal.”
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ھايات بىر مىۋىگە ئوخشايدۇ. ئانا مىۋە دەرىخىدەك چېچەكلەپ سىزنى تۇغىدۇ. ئاندىن سىزچوڭ بولۇشقا باشلايسىز، بۇجەرياندا دەرەخ غولى سىزنى يەردىن سۈمۈرگەن سۇ بىلەن پەرۋىشلەيدۇ. سىزمۇ ئىلىمنى ئەتىراپىڭىزدىن قۇبۇل قىلىشقا باشلايسىز. ئەگەر دەرەخ شېخىدىن بالدۇر يەر يۈزىگە چۈشۈپ كەتسىڭىز سېسىپ كېتىسىز. سىز پىشىپ مەي بولغاندىن كېيىن ھاياتىڭىزدىكى توغرا تاللاشنى تاللىيالايدىغان بولىسىز. بەزىلىرىمىز قۇياش نۇرى ئاستىدا قاق بولىساق، بەزىلىرىمىز قۇياش نۇرى كۆرەلمەي ئۆتۈپ كېتىمىز. ئەگەر مىۋىلەرگە باقسىڭىز ھىچ قايسىنىڭ بىر-بىرىگە ئوخشىمايدىغانلىقىنى ھېس قىلىسىز.
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met him in #Hotan [ #CHINA ]
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“I think every girl at some point in her life wonders what it's like to be a princess. After things started to change rapidly in mine I realized that this spring is my last chance to become one. Here I am.”
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我想每個女孩在成長的過程中總會有那一刻會想， 當公主是什麼感覺。 而當我自己的人生開始翻天覆地飛速變化的時候，我意識到， 這個春天將會是我最後一個圓公主夢的機會。 所以， 我來啦。
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met her near Xianghu, #Hangzhou [ #CHINA ]
for more stories: www.facebook.com/thepeopleimeet
"You know for the local wedding the Hani, create their own wedding dress."
So you made it all by yourself?
"No, I actually took my mother's. :)"
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- invited me to her wedding in Manlai #Yunnan [ #CHINA ] (Akha - 'Hani' minority)
more stories: www.facebook.com/thepeopleimeet
“All three of us were born in this town in the same year, the year of the tiger. We are also widows and as our zodiac predicted, we have been loyal to each other as tigers as far as I can remember. Of course we have had few minor fights throughout our lives but miraculously we are here, strong and watching the shows together.”
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- met her in #Yangmei, #Guangxi [ #CHINA ]
more stories: www.facebook.com/thepeopleimeet
“My father died in the war and when I wanted to join the military myself and revenge him, I wasn’t accepted because of my eye. I have lost it since I was a kid. Apart from that I lost my first wife and my own son together with my land.”
“My son always begged me for money and one day I decided to sell all of the farm land we had in order to help him out, but soon afterwards he disappeared with all the money. He never cared to come back and take care of me as he promised. I have no idea where he is now but I suspect it’s his wife behind all of this.”
“Since I was left with no money and no farm I had it really hard just to survive, since I couldn’t grow any food anymore. Luckily I have found a woman who took me in and to whom I married now.”
“Anyway, tell the people that the life might be hard sometimes, but no one should ever give up! Living is good! … Being able to live here in fact is amazing… be always positive!”
I am sorry, you are crying.
“No,no my friend, it’s just allergy.”
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"我的父亲在战争中去世，当我希望加入军队为我父亲报仇时，却因为眼睛的疾病被拒绝了。小时候我的一只眼睛失明了。除此之外，之后我的第一任妻子去世，我的儿子离开了我。后来，我离开了故乡。”
“我的儿子常常问我要钱，有一天我决定卖掉所有的农田土地来帮他。但不久以后，他就带着钱消失了。他没有像他曾经保证的那样回来照顾我...我也根本没有他的音讯。我猜想也许是他的妻子在背后策划着这一切。”
“我的儿子丢下我后，我身无分文，也无法通过耕种土地来养活自己，生活变得很艰难。幸运地是我遇到了一个愿意接纳我的女人，后来我们结婚了。”
“我希望你告诉人们，生活不如意之事十之八九，但千万不要放弃！活着是一件很幸福的事！...能够在这世上经历这一生已经是奇迹了...我们应该笑着面对一切！”
看到你为此哭泣我很难过！
“不，你不必觉得难过，我的朋友，只是我的眼睛过敏了。”
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- met him in #Mengzi, #Yunnan [ #CHINA ]
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"She doesn't talk anymore."
Why?
"Maybe because she lives here for more then 100 years. She has never seen a foreigner before, that's why she is staring at you."
May I take her picture?
"Why not, let the world know that she might be 100 years old, yet she still works in the fields till the sun dawn. Every single day."
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" 她不再讲话”
为什么
”大概因为她在这里生活了一百多年，她从来没见过一个外国人，所以才这样盯着你看”
我可以给她拍张照吗
”为什么不呢，让世界知道她尽管100多岁了，但她还是在田里耕种到傍晚，每一天都是”
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- met her in Bakahe, a tiny village near the Laotian border where I was brought by Xiaoyi
May I take your picture?
"Shsss, I'm in a call."
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met her in Dacang #Yunnan [ #CHINA ] ('Yi' minority)
more stories: www.facebook.com/thepeopleimeet
“I am a farmer, or at least I was one until I got disabled. I grew and harvested vegetables basically my whole life. I recently became 70 and lost my husband. I have 3 daughters and one son. All of them are working and living outside of the village. Probably it was my old house that caught your eye. Well I lived here my whole life. My kitchen is falling apart and the water is also soaking in. Throughout the years the rest of the people in this village became somewhat richer and could afford themselves new houses. It’s not because of me, I will probably die with this house, but it’s for my only son I feel bad, because I can’t provide him with a real house. Without a house he won’t ever be able to find a wife.”
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- met her in Banzhao #Guangxi [ #CHINA ]
more stories: www.facebook.com/thepeopleimeet
“I was 19 years old when I took the skies in order to see the world. By doing that I was finally able to break free from the shackles of my family but at the same time I gave up on academic formation."
"I stayed in Vietnam for four years, my life’s most liberal and most rewarding period. Later I flew for KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines) during a period of 9 years. I think I can’t compare it with the previous four years in Vietnam. Being a flight attendant was never my dream and as I once wrote in my diary; ‘The sky is vast, but the aircraft is a cage.’ led me to do something else. Anyway, I am still grateful for this job. Everything I gained in my life comes from it; the substantial income, generous welfare tickets and even my husband. However traveling was always the passion of my life.”
“I will never forget the moment when after two years of marriage on a particular flight from Europe to Xiamen, while watching all the garbage on the floor of the aircraft with more than 60 non-stop crying babies, I decided to quit. So here I am in Guizhou where I opened an Inn in order to generate some income, live life, travel and have a partial freedom.”
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“我19岁飞上蓝天，为了早点出国见世面，早点挣脱家庭的束缚，学习成绩优秀的我放弃了大学。在越南的四年，是我一生中最自由最有收获，最有意义的四年。后来在KLM（荷兰皇家航空公司）的九年飞行，都无法与越南的四年工作生活相比。但是作为一名空姐，并不是我喜欢的职业，我曾经在十年前的日记中这样写道，“天空很广阔，飞机是牢笼.”但我还是感谢这份工作，我生活中所得到的一切都来源于这份工作，可观的收入，优厚的机票福利，身边人的羡慕，甚至相伴一生的老公。我最大的兴趣是旅行，一个人。”
“结婚两年后，某一天的一个从欧洲飞往厦门的航班上，看着飞机上满地的垃圾，六十多个哭叫不停的婴儿，我下了辞职的决心。来贵州开客栈，目的不是赚钱，而是生活，自由地生活。”
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accidentally met her in a forest, let me stay over in their Inn for free in Tashan, #Xingyi, #Guizhou [ #CHINA ]
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"Once we had a house near Tiatong road but I sold it a long time ago. I would definitely have had several times more money for it now if I haven't sold it back then. We needed the money to pay for my daughter's university studies in the States."
"... but you know, it was really worth it. She lives in a big house, has a good paying job and live with her family near San Francisco. Let me show you some of the pictures I took there. (she runs into a house, comes back with a stack of photographs and hands them over). Check them out! I went all over to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and everything ... I even tried to gamble in a casino but lost all the tokens of course. Everything is just much more expensive there, but we had to try everything."
... and who is this cutie?
"San-San" (3-3)
"Once we had a dog and she had 4 babies. San-San was her baby number three."
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“以前我们在天潼路有套房子，但很久以前就卖了。如果之前没卖的话现在可以卖到几倍的价钱，但是当时我们需要钱支付女儿在美国的大学费用。“
“......但你知道吗？这很值得，她现在住在一所大房子里，有一个高薪工作，和她家人生活在旧金山附近。让我给你看看我在那里拍的照片。（她跑进房里拿了一叠照片递给我看）。你看看，我去了旧金山，洛杉矶，拉斯维加斯和其他地方......我甚至去了赌场，但是输了一些钱。那里的东西虽然很贵，但我们必须尝试一切。“
这可爱的狗狗叫什么名字？
“三三”
“以前我们有只狗狗，她生了4只小狗。三三是她第3个孩子。
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"Una vez tuvimos una casa cerca de la calle Tiantong pero la vendí hace mucho tiempo. Sin duda, hubiera tenido varias veces más dinero por si la venderia ahora. Necesitábamos el dinero para pagar los estudios universitarios de mi hija en los Estados Unidos".
"... pero valio la pena. Ahora vive en una casa grande, tiene un trabajo bien pagado y vive con su familia cerca de San Francisco. Te voy a enseñar algunas de las fotos que hice allí. (Me entrega una pila de fotografías). Mira las! ... fui todas partes; a San Francisco, Los Ángeles, Las Vegas y todo ... incluso intenté jugar en un casino, pero claro perdí todo. Por ahi todo es mucho más caro, pero teníamos que probar de todo ".
... ¿Y este perrito?
"San-San" (3-3)
"Una vez tuvimos una perra que tuvo 4 bebes. San-San era su bebé número tres.
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met her near Baoshan rd., #Shanghai [ #CHINA ]
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Acceptance - One Race by Wendy Barrington, winner of the Hull Ferens Open Exhibition 2017 Student Award. Hull was City of Culture in 2017.
From the information sign - where we come from and what we look like is determined by factors we cant control. The environment has determined the colour of our skin. These figures are made from three different clays and fired at four different temperatures. Their finished appearance is determined by the heat of the kiln and the properties of the clay.
"I have traveled quite a bit in my life, as Syrians we don't tend to travel that much. My journey from Turkey to Europe wasn't too bad, though not the most comfortable. Turkey became a rough place throughout the years, so I decided to try to get to Europe, holding onto the hope that one day I could return to Aleppo. I really hope the situation gets better there. There's not much to come back to. Most of my friends have either been killed or have left the city. In Europe, I ended up in a place where they hold refugees in Slovakia. I was there for a long time. Finally, thanks to some new friends, I met a very kind woman who stepped out and helped me get my life back together. She is the widow of a famous Slovak comedian, and she offered to host me in her house."
How is your life now, in her home?
“Well, she is very open minded and a nice person. I think she likes having me here, because we talk a lot and she keeps introducing me to everyone she knows when we go somewhere together. I think the message is that people who only know about the Middle East from the media have a stereotyped image of us before they even meet us. If they met us they might discover that we are humans too, with needs like anyone else on this planet. I wish I hadn’t gone through all of this, but this is my reality and my future now. I help where I can, with translations and things, but mostly I’m looking forward to starting university in a few days."
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- met him in #Bratislava, [ SLOVAKIA ]
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“I am Dinosan!”
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我是Dino桑！
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met her in People’s Park #Shanghai [ #CHINA ]
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One creation
One race
One life
Many journeys
One destination
Alanound and a Yemeni camel keeper, south of Jeddah.
Ameer, thank you for the inspirational words. @emeero
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8 Comments on Instagram:
katerinakaterfly: #Jeddah #camelkeeper #onelove #onerace
alanoudsharif: Love it 😍🙈❤️
katerinakaterfly: 💓 @alanoudsharif ! Me too @shemz11 😎
a_ahmetoglu: *That's a Sudanese camel keeper
blueabaya: This is beautiful! The image, the feeling, the woman, and that abaya too😍👍
katerinakaterfly: @a_ahmetoglu Thank you very much for the clarification 😊 (wish I could edit the description).
katerinakaterfly: Beautiful Suzie, am thrilled that it talks to you in such a way 🙏 @blueabaya
mele 'ohana
ke hapai nei ka leo i ku'u 'ohana
na ke aloha e kau ka lei i ku'u poli
nau ku'u makana aloha
ma keia 'aina e pulama mai
i loko o ku'u na'au
na ke akua e malama mau
eia ku'u aloha ia 'oukou
i lift my voice up to my family
whose love i wear upon my chest
this is my gift of love for you
from the land that has nurtured me
it remains here in my heart
cared forever by god
here is my love for all of you
na ke akua e malama mau
eia ku'u aloha ia 'oukou
music and lyrics by kumu hula keali'i reichel