When Your Split Between Two Worlds

Stereotypes and the misconceptions that result from these stereotypes is a negative social factor shared by the whole world. It’s something that modern day Serbia, and the western world as a collective are no strangers to. People are quick to judge anybody who is different, yet alone whole nations. They forget that you don’t judge a man by his country, nor any nation by any individual man or organisation. People fear what they don’t understand and they ignore what they are encouraged to overlook. Propaganda spins its own agenda on both sides, and bullshit walks. People are so segregated that communication can become an obstacle in itself, and without communication the very bridges needed for human understanding and negotiation, are left unconstructed. The world corporate media wants us to put faith in its ability to make sense of the world, and thus we allow the media giants to portray a special reality just for us. Only problem being that the reality we get sold is merely a fabricated reality of half truths and falsification. We still let the news giants dictate our understanding and view of the world. We do it willingly whilst the truth of the real reality lies out there. We fail to look for a way to justify the confusion we are led to believe by our governments, and media. We fail to look at the world objectively and seek out what we’ve been blinded to see.

This is not a reality confined just to the western world. It’s a collective world mentality. We need to break our preconceived opinion of people, culture, politics, race and social normality, seek out the truth, and try to hear out both sides of the story. Only once we sort through the sea of material out there, and we free ourselves of judgement can we begin to see through the murky water, gain an insight, better yet gain an understanding worth justifying as a sane mentality. We need to begin to question things. We need to question the validity of the information we get force fed by the media. And we need to take a really good look at ourselves, and search for the beauty of human diversity, and find a common ground within ourselves by which we can relate to people of any background and culture.

We are all products of our environment, this is without a doubt. We are also the bedrock that gets carved by our influences, the stream that moulds us to its ideal. Once we take control and begin to question things, ask the ifs, buts and maybes, only then can we forge a mentality that truly reflects reality. Ive been subject to a range of influences over time, people that drummed their ideal into my head. I was made to feel all of the emotions imaginable in order to conform, and accept the views and opinions of the friends, family and media. After all once we become convinced by somebody that another group of people are evil, and that their intentions are criminal, we emotionally allocate ourselves to feeling anger and hatred towards the accused. Our judgement becomes so clouded by emotion that we fail to question the motives, misconceptions, fabrications and emotional prejudice that had influenced the very people that try to sway us to think one way or another! Emotion is a powerful human drive, but one that can overshadow our ability to reason and comprehend. Emotion drives me, just as its led me to question the double standards ive been lead to believe most of my life. It was difficult, but over time i questioned reality, and questioned the very systems that define this western society. Ive grown up a foreigner of another nation, forged my identity within this western society, questioned the values of my family and my Serbian people, learnt my history and educated myself in the systems that define both this western nation and my European homeland. I’m lucky as to have grown up exposed to two different versions of history, politics, and even as to what society should have been. After years of influence by my family with its version of reality, to the western version of history and culture, politics and social normality, ideals portrayed by the society that ive grown to be a part of, i learnt this; The world is simply not black and white, there’s many shades of colour in between. Just as there’s no real right and wrong answers, as reality is subject to personal perception, and justified by our human emotion.