Anthropologist Margaret Mead’s essay for This I Believe praises the intrinsic human oneness that unites us all as well as the culture in which we are raised that separates us. If we are to be one human race, we must learn about the differences and similarities of the human cultures that so shape us.
I believe that human life is given meaning through the relationship which the individual’s conscious goals have to the civilization, period and country within which one lives. At times, the task may be to fence a wilderness, to bridge a river or rear sons to perpetuate a young colony. Today, it means taking upon ourselves the task of creating one world in such a way that we both keep the future safe and leave the future free.
You can read or listen to her whole essay here.
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