2850. Cross-cultural enrichment © Bruce Goodman 20 September 2023

It’s amazing how enriching cross-cultural communication can be. I myself belong to a minority community on this dear planet, and there’s so much that can be learnt from one culture to another. Some people like to think that the responsibility to learn is a task belonging solely to the dominant culture. But there’s so much that minority cultures can learn from the dominant culture. I’ll give an example. On my planet if someone does a misdemeanour, for example a person ransacks a jewellery shop, the individual is vaporized. The process is instantaneous. The person is there; ZAP! The person is not there. What I have learnt from visiting Earth and assimilating their cultural habits, is that they first make the person suffer, say for example they might first shoot them in the knees. After they have screamed a bit they might cut out the person’s tongue. They then could leave the person to agonize a little bit before drilling a hole in their head and hanging them upside down so that they will drip to death. The Chinese in particular are good at it. It’s certainly a cultural custom that I shall be taking back to my planet when I return: how to deal with bad people. As I say, such mutual co-operation can be so enriching. And don’t think that the enrichment is not a two-way process. I have been promoting our way of dealing with “Goody-goods”. “Goody-two-shoes” I think you call them. Our process of dealing with good people is magnificent and fortunately doesn’t end in instantaneous vaporization but in lingering physical deformation and pain. As I pointed out to Earth’s authorities: if you had our system at your fingertips you wouldn’t have had to put up with the Red Cross for so long. Contact Author Back to Index Next Story Previous Story