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7 billion Others

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We share this planet with seven billion others. What is our relationship with them? Are we a single unity? Do we belong to one of many tribal divisions? Are we individuals in a planet full of individuality? There is, of course, no single answer to these fundamental questions. Our sense of identity and diversity depends on context. But the way we conceive of our place among the people of the world has profound social, environmental, political, and ethical implications. The GoodPlanet Foundation asked people from all over the world a series of standard questions about the things they value. The survey examines their hopes, dreams, fears, and grounding principles. In bearing witness to the answers, the project allows us to explore the depth of our human commonality against the superficial visual and linguistic signs of difference. These sound-bites provide points of connection between ourselves and others.
Be The Change
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Learn more about the 7 billion Others project and take a look at more than 20 hours of video from your fellow human beings. Add your own voice!
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Information technology has made global, transcultural connections possible in new and creative ways. See how singing together from across the oceans engenders a sense of oneness.
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Look into the faces of the people you pass as you walk down the street today.  Imagine the ways in which your lives might be rich in diversity -- and then consider the myriad of important ways your lives are very much the same.
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Reflections (50)

Dave
The unfamiliar countries and languages should be identified. Yes, interesting to see and hear all of them.
sandra
celebrate individuality...
Barbara
Love is all there is. Thank you for laughing with me.
Jennie
I loved seeing the many faces and hearing the words of all these positive beautiful people! I love the differences in life, I celebrate and learn from them, but in so many ways we are alike! We are alike in our hopes and dreams for the world.
John
7 million role plays--- daily adding thousands more aspirational dreamers --
with the needed support from the already beyond available resources of
the planet... The arrogance of humanity! that we believe our entitlement
exceeds the rights of other species to surrender their habitat and
food resources to our insatable greed.
antoinette
What inspired you about this video? I live life to its fullest and endeavor to bring joy and happiness to myself and others around the world.
Muhammad ABRAR Qureshi
We all humanbeing have the same instinct - hunger for a true and everlasting faithful friendship - full of love and respect. Although, this kind of commodity is very rare product in the present materialistic world, yet one should not give up and instead keep on searching for it. If found should protect it as a precious jewel.
Abhay K
I am so happy to see this video. Kudos to GoodPlanet Foundation for this pioneering initiative.
Our nations have national anthems but not our planet. I wonder if you got a chance to watch the Earth Anthem which I have written and produced with great effort- http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kQz8jxJLNOA
Please share to help our planet get an anthem. Thanks
Daniel Geery
The commonality of our species is a sacred, beautiful, and inspirational "tidbit" that could solve world problems overnight. We but need to recognize it, accept it, embrace it. We are the same species with the same fate, no matter what "expert" may claim otherwise.

The military is a truly major problem, but I believe Mark Twain had the answer [paraphrased]: My main objection to the military is that I like to get to know people before I want to kill them--who amongst us can't relate to this? But if you truly get to know somebody, and to understand them, you will feel much less like killing them.
akin
I believe that the owner and the author of the planet where 7 billion people occupy has distributed all that we need with differs knowledge of utilizing them so there must be international comparative advantages and total freedom of life
Moshe
The commonality of love and joy and caring expressed across cultures.
Santosh
Only oneness.all are the children of GOD.
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