racism, ethnic cleansing, genocide i just don't get it.

Yes it is sad...but this is hatred that is instilled into the children and sadly I put a lot of it down to religion..when will these people learn that we are all here for such a short time and none of us really own anything, we used it for our time we can't take anything with us and we all end up in the same place so why can't we all care about each other, come together and help enrich the lives of all cultures so we can all have the best of lives...when will they learn that all life is precious...

I don't understand it either. I think the problem is that people feel the need to feel superior to another group of people based on things the other group can't control. If they had more power in their own lives they wouldn't be so obsessed with what other people are doing or not doing wherever they are doing or not doing it.

I will never understand it, either. I was raised to be color-blind, to live and let live and that just because someone is different from you in any way, shape or form doesn't make them inferior or evil or better than you, either. Everyone has something to offer. There are interesting things from every culture. Imagine what a dull world it would be if everyone looked the exact same, dressed the same, believed the same things, ate the same food, jeezelouise, it would be soooooo boring. Different cultures enrich the world and there is something beautiful to bring home from them all. People who refuse to see that or hate based on something that is different from themselves not only lose so much themselves, but do so much needless damage to those they prey upon.

I don't think that madness will ever stop as long as there are people on the earth. I believe, though, that it will be greed that takes the world down, rather than these hatreds. Or perhaps a combination of the two, greed of the world elite and hatred of those they enslave to the greater benefit of their own wealth. Either way, as long as there are people on earth, I believe this problem will exist. Someday, though, they will all have to face their Maker and I would not want to be them on that day.

This is indeed sad. This kind of thing happens every day, amidst the efforts of international world peace organizations. How do we put an end to it? We can start by abolishing discrimination of any kind. Most people think their race, religion, ideas or beliefs are far more superior than others. That's' preposterous! No man is inferior to another. Every individual is special in his own way and that individual is entitled to his opinion.

Your grievance is indeed too much to bear. But all these will come to pass. The history of salvation had been bloody and morbid, too. The Bible had spelled it all for us. Yet each year, in the modern world, grosser events transpire. What you related tops the stories for our weary hearts...

it is very sad how people can still hate others for being different in anyways. to me this world can never have peace because so many hate others for so many dumb reasons
i think they should take those haters and put them in a big feild and let go at each others so the rest of us who wants to get along with everyone else can live in peace.

It's so stupid, and so evil. I don't understand why people even spend energy for hating other people. And what's the difference? For color, or religion, or politic belief, or race? Come on, races don't even exist! We're all people, what's the point in feeling better over someone else? Does it really make us better? Not! But these things never stop happening, even though there's been plenty of horrors inthe past and you could think people understood something or learnt something, it seems as we never learn!

I think that what happened in World War II was incredibly sad. The ethnic cleansing made no sense whatsoever. Many innocent people were killed by the Nazis. I have visited Anne Franks House in Amsterdam. She wrote a diary about hiding from the Nazis. It was terrible when someone let the Nazis know about them. All of her family went to concentration camps. Only her dad survived and luckily he told her story. I have been to the house of Corrie Ten Boom, a Dutch lady that saved many Jewish people. I have been to some of the concentration camps, one in Germany, one in the Czech Republic and two in Poland. I have been to a memorial in Israel. I have visited Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

It is mad that people haven't learned from what happened in the awful World War II. I couldn't believe how foolish and nasty people were with the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. What has been happened in Zimbabwe is really sad. I am against war. I believe in international aid like taking food to the hungry and water to the thirsty. I think history is fascinating and all people should learn not to let such terrible things happen again.

Hello Mamabear. Like you, I cannot conceive of these things even existing, let alone having the least bit of understanding as to why those who participate in such atrocities do so. How can they??

We are one race, created by God or whatever one calls him, and we are of the HUMAN race. Period.

Hatred is poison.

Karen