All mixed up!

 
Last Thursday, for the celebration of the WAR, week against racism, (and just for fun)
we arranged a Multicultural Speed-date Evening in Kirjakahvila here in Turku.
The original plan was to reach as many people as possible, from as many cultural
backgrounds s possible.
It was lots of other parties too in Turku, so in the end, it were only few of us there. The range of nationalities was still: Finnish, French, Greekish and Chinese. So, quite a bunch of people.

Whereas immigration and refugee has grown during the last centuries, it has become easy to travel especially when you’re a student. It’s not a wonder if You hear someone behind You in the supermarket speak mandarin china or German. It's almost more common nowadays to have been a exchange-student than not to have been one. So we're globalizing also socially, and as it happens so fast, we may not have the time to actually think what we have in front of our eyes.

That is: our fellow men.

As I sat there tired of the tuff week, I suddenly realized again, how lucky I am.

To be able to spent time with these wonderful, open people, who don’t have a racist bone in their bodies. In fact, quite the opposite. And I'm learning something new, all the time, every minute! Totally free of charge! Now I know that men in China cant marry before their 22, that in France You can still smoke in public places, that Greek women think women in Finland behave against good manners when they speak "like men"... and well, you know. No huge revealing, but eye-openers to others everyday life.

And there we were, all mixed up. Our languages, traditions, and genes.

Under the very same sky, as all of the rest of the mankind.

 -Ninnu