The Ethnocentric Mind

My way is all that I know

So it must be the right way

You are wrong

because

you are doing things a different way

You are doing it the way that you were taught

And even though

it is all that you know

it has to be wrong

because

it isn’t my way

how dare you criticize my way

you’re the one that has it wrong

my God is better than your God

because my God is the one true God

******************

If we could all grasp the concept

of ethnocentricity

we wouldn’t have any more wars.

We would understand

why others believe what they believe.

And we could start embracing our diversity.