The unmovable chair or an update on cultural differences

This has been long overdue, and on my mind ever since I started to work for multinational companies and met people from all over the world. Some of them are really nice, and some have surprising theories about what and why we here, in this country should or should not do. How come we are urged to learn their backgrounds, while they who have not grown up and lived here, so often tell us what and why is wrong here? Why is it that they don't even want to listen to us? Instead they tell us what's wrong with our attitude, or with the previous government we had. Guess, because it was a socialist party?

And then there is them who escaped from here. From what? What if everyone did so? Why we who stayed here, that is our parents and grandparents did so, cannot be ourselves? Surely, if you don't run away, then everything that happens where you are, will leave its mark on you. So did the same happen with them in other countries, so now they talk not only for themselves, but for those governments and that system. Why wouldn't I then if I find it true? Why should I change my mind?

It's always been them who 'had' to flee for some reason and then came back to visit or stay after the so-called change of system, who could surprise me most by telling how bad it's been here and how good it is now with no socialism and dictatorship. And if they think socialism effected our country so badly, why did they come back? Why do they never talk about how badly the nazis effected our nation, or to that, all people?

How could they know how it's been here? From news that represented the interests of countries that were not on this side of the iron curtain, the exact same half lies-half truths we heard here? They heard and they knew what they were told, and what they wanted to. Like all of us, true. However, mindless propaganda, superficial news and the like of it, they all come from the same source where those weapons, and if you fall for them without thinking then you reach the same effect as if you used those guns and bombs.

Some of my grandparents, like many of their generation were almost, or actually killed. Also many Jews who survived thought that it was best for them to move to Israel. But there they had to face new and almost constant wars. And at the same time be blamed again, like by the nazis for living, and now for fighting for their lives.

Because the terrorist groups who act as the government of some of their neighboring countries get weaponry from other superpowers as them. Because this endless, biggest money laundry is what politics is really about. You can't judge a nation by its government, though they are elected by them.

I wonder if in reflection of the Syrian war anyone thinks of whether those who make their own folks flee from there, are also responsible for bombing Israel together with similar organizations in Ghaza. Only you never hear that the Israelis should be saved, like it was a rare exception during World War 2. Instead they're held responsible for defending their people by an army that's put in front of the civilians, unlike those terrorists who use them as a living shield. But nobody talks about this in the news... Does anyone care?

It's always been easier to attack minorities. What's the chance they'll fight back? And if they do, they can still be held responsible for it. Reminds me of a court case where the owner of the apartment who attempted to defend himself against the thief that even attacked him, was sentenced for offending that. Could it be that the laws are wrong? And who writes them?
It's like a chair that you can't move, and it's the only place where you can sit. You are given only one chance, take it or not. You can't choose where you're born, your heritage, your genes.

My mother's father was a socialist or better to say communist in the true meaning of the word. He'd share everything with the other people in that little village, even though he had a huge family to support. Yet when the so-called revolution came in 1956 these people gave him up. Had not the Sowiets arrive the next mornig, he would have been executed with all members of his family. And yet afterwards he'd not given up or hurt anyone. He went on with his life, and helped when he could, anyone who asked for it.

My father's mother who survived the Holocaust, mentioned friendly Austrian soldiers who helped her and my father when they could escape from the death-camp, because the Sowiets were getting near, so the Germans left.

The very same thing has so many aspects, that in my opinion, no matter how much our country's heritage and our family marks the way we think and see things, we are first of all personalities, and so we choose ourselves how we think and how we communicate our thoughts.