For A Better World
Multi-Cultural Blog
A multicultural effort on showing how the world could become better. This blog is an example of multi-cultural author collaboration. This world that we live in is divided into different continents and countries. We still can make it as a better world, by finding areas of common interest among ourselves as humans, as well as sharing our knowledge about what could be done for a better world.
Actually (06 November 2010) we are present authors of Egypt, Luxembourg, Australia, United States, Switzerland, India and Italy, awaiting soon more countries to join in.
The authors are not “dreamers”, they have a “realistic thinking” background, they know that this world can not be changed in a short time, but they want to share their ideas and Tips to make it move forward…
This article was a knol created on November 02, 2010 and was migrated to WP on December 29, 2011.
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Authors are trying on their best to present content which is accepted in any culture, that is why it is a Multi-cultural Blog. If you, dear reader would find something which you think is hurting you, or this could happen, so please let us know and we will try to clarify it… We don’t want to harm anybody, but it could be possible that we publish(ed) something without knowing that it could be not well accepted by some cultures. We are humans and trying to present something useful, so please if you find it not acceptable, just let us know and we will take care of it.. Thank you very much and we hope you enjoy it.. 🙂Welcome To Our Readers
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[GM]: Good manners, such as greeting somebody (Hello, Hi…) also and especially on Internet (on Internet it is disappearing almost), saying “Thank you” to somebody and “please” are “keywords” for showing “Respect” to each other.
In my country (Luxembourg) we even say that those words are the “keys” that open all the doors…
Different authors with different cultures are trying to meet and share their knowledge on a Blog to break out the distances among themselves. Most of the authors present here have an educational and/or medical knowledge background and are using this knowledge to give you, dear readers, a guideline, an impulse for thinking on it how it could be, when wished so…
In this blog we will try to give as much as possible guidelines about what we authors present here think what could be done for a better world and also we will show on this knol how it could possible be realized by using ICT and Education as possibilities…
We are not “dreamers“, we have a “realistic thinking” background, we know that this world can not be changed in a Century Time, but we want to share our ideas and Tips to make it move forward…
If you, dear reader and/or knol author, have the same mentality, please let us know it by a comment.
Thanks to do so, you will be welcome 😉
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When I do something for other people, I feel good, “says Peterson“. When you do something voluntarily for others, not only for its own interests, it is rewarded. In some mysterious way, serve as an “altruistic” (the opposite of selfishness) gives his own life more important. It seems that nature have put it in our genes, or that people are happy when they have the spirit of sharing, community spirit.
So, dear readers, make yourself feeling good and share this knol (unit of knowledge) with other people, thanks in advance 😉 .
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Introduction
We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth’s climate.- Alternative Energies for a better world
- New Architecture Technologies for a better world
- Science for a better world
- Traditional medecine for a better world
- Sharing our knowledge for a better world
- Multicultural Events
- New Knowledge in Psychology, the positive thinking
- Education for a better world
- Generation Exchange for a better world
- Helping The Poor to take part of the already present knowledge
- Financing with MicroCredits to give opportunity to learn
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PS: Give your brain a kick and start thinking on how yourself can contribute to a better world, the solutions are described here in this blog 😉
Some wise words:
With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world. Dalai Lama
By developing a sense of concern for others’ well-being, then no matter what others’ attitudes are, you can keep inner peace. Dalai Lama
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What Is Multicultural???
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What is multicultural??? It is like a rainbow, lots of different colors and most lots of different mentalities, different ways to see the same things…
This blog tries to show the common things for everybody with different mentalities but with the same goal “For A Better World” and I am sure we will be able to find a common point of interest and also a common point of on how to change things 😉
The World, Our Home, Let Us Preserve It…
The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being.
For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group, made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make any profit because Home is a non-profit film.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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- Actioncarbone (EN)
- Actioncarbone (FR)
- GoodPlanet (EN)
- GoodPlanet (FR)
- Environmental Defense Fund (EN)
- ULCOS (Ultra Low CO2 Steel Making)
Our World, What Is Happening Now With It?
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Me profiting from when I help other people, it is me who gives something and not the other person???” Such may be your thinking, but…There are new ways in Psychology who are describing this very well such as:
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- Martin Seligman and his Positive Psychology
- A very informative article in German here “Die neue Wissenschaft vom Glück” (use translation Tools, please)
- Dr. Christopher PETERSON
- Barbara FREDRICKSON: Her main work is related to her broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions, which suggests that positive emotions lead to novel, expansive, or exploratory behavior, and that, over time, these actions lead to meaningful, long-term resources such as knowledge and social relation ships.
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When I do something for other people, I feel good, “says Peterson“. When you do something voluntarily for others, not only for its own interests, it is rewarded. In some mysterious way, serve as an “altruistic” (the opposite of selfishness) gives his own life more important. It seems that nature have put it in our genes, or that people are happy when they have the spirit of sharing, community spirit.
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When I am happy and talking to other persons so my positive karma is going over to other persons as well and they will learn also to become happy (without taking drugs) and happy persons are more open minded and constructive thinking as well. Constructive thinking means also doing and/or creating something new related to new acquired knowledge and sharing this new acquired knowledge again makes things move forward, a positive step who will get amplified by other people following that same good mentality…
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We are all perfect strangers
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Help From My Friends
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The Power Of TeamWork
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By sharing our knowledge, like we authors do here, people will know what happens with the world, what could be done to help for a better world and also how people can come together by respecting each other. The Sharing Of Knowledge over the Internet has the Power of 24/24 hours availability and the information could get read where ever, Internet connexion provided…
Prominent People For A Better World…
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Traditional Medicine
Krishan Maggon: Before World War II, medicine was mostly traditional all over the world except few drugs like aspirin, insulin and few vaccines. Advanced in medicine and science and imaging have contributed to the resurgence of modern medicine in most of the Western and developed world.
Lack of health care insurance in developing and poor countries and the high cost of modern medicine has made it out of reach for over 70% of global population. Thus over 5 billion persons in our world rely mainly on the traditional system of medicines like the Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine, Shaman, Persian, Arab, African/Asian/local tribal medicine men, phytotherapy, homeopathy and a diverse variety of remedies, cures and treatments. These cures are often derived from nearby forests or local resources. The early practitioners of traditional medicine were saints, community leaders or learned scholars and were recognized as well wishers of the society. This tradition still continues in rural communities, where traditional medicine men are sought after for health care and general social problems of the family. |
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The cost of traditional medicine is much lower, it is closer to the community, and patients get personal attention or the healing touch of the practitioner who speaks the same language. Traditional medicine until a few decades ago has never been practiced as a commercial service like modern medicine and patients pay according to their ability and financial status. The World Health Organization has recommended for the incorporation of the traditional systems of medicine for communities where it is accepted, into the primary health care system. Although traditional medicine did not learn from the rest of the world or incorporate modern ideas from science and medicine, there is no reason for modern medicine to ignore traditional systems of medicines. These systems must be reinterpreted in the light of our new knowledge and incorporated in modern medicine along with other forms of traditional medicine.
New Drugs Offer Magical Cures To Save Lives
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What Can Education Do For A Better World???
Education, if well managed can do a lot for a better world. The teaching system (worldwide) should teaching more about sensibleness of nature and social conflicts, not only the basics what is already on the teaching schedule, more teaching of sensibleness how humans are destroying our planet, trying to make learners sensible to the planet problems…
What is Education already doing for a better world??? There is a worldwide Student Exchange Program for cultural understanding existing as well as a special Concept of knowledge sharing from the European Commission, called “COMENIUS“, please watch here “Comenius“. Other possibilities from the European Commission could get found here “Education & Training“.
Education should be FREE for everybody worldwide, there is already something happening, not known by most of the people, have a look here please “Khan Academy“. Khan (The Founder) intends nothing less than “tens of thousands” of tutorials offering the “first free, world-class virtual school where anyone can learn anything.” Have a look on here as well, please: Bill Gates’ favorite teacher
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Starting On The Beginning, Education To Youth
Youth is the future anyway, so Education to Youth with their own actions should be promoted, the European Commission is doing so as a lot of other worldwide known organizations such as:
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- European Commission-Youth
- United Nations / Childrens Day
- United Nations / Childrens Day
- UNICEF
- CARITAS
- Red Cross
- The Mosaic Project
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Generation Exchange / Café des âges / Dialogue Café
.In collaboration with the Alliance of Civilizations, CISCO launched Dialogue Café at the Istanbul Forum. The project is based on a radical but simple idea: ordinary people have more in common than not and given the opportunity will explore their common interests even across radical geo-political divides.
Dialogue Café links diverse groups of citizens from around the world through third generation video-conferencing technology, thereby creating a new space for social innovation and exponentially expanding our ability to solve problems and innovate as a global community. Dialogue Café’s development is being supported by an international multi-sector consortium of partners, enabled by cutting-edge technology, and most importantly is driven by ordinary people.
The Café proof of concept will commmence with preparations for pilot cafes in New York, London, Istanbul and the Middle East.
- United Nations Alliance Of Civilizations
- Café des âges de ACTISSE.NET (Senior Portal in French)
- Café des âges de AGEVILLAGE.COM (Senior Portal in French)
- First Café des âges in Luxembourg on 12.11.2010
What Can ICT Do For A Better World???
ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) has a wide impact for a better world as the whole knowledge of mankind (when present on Internet) could get used to share it (when Internet connexion provided, what is not the case in all countries). When we use the word “World“, we are talking about the “World in the 21th Century“, thus meaning that we have also to consider Internet being part of our world as both are interacting…
So as most of you know probably, Internet is like a trap when people are not aware about the dangers and the security. Security is a must on our days, we need to protect our computers and also we need some special tools to know if the web sites we are visiting are secure. One of those tools is WOT (World Of Trust)…
 WOT, protect yourself from online scams, sites with adult content, spam and other Internet threats. The Wot community has rated millions of websites so you can search, shop online and surf for fun without worrying.
—> Get WOT now! <—
Un homme averti en vaut deux (FR) / Gefahr erkannt ist Gefahr gebannt (DE) / Forewarned is Forearmed (EN)
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First of all, Internet must be present in any country of the world, as also a good broadband of Internet services, below you will see the last report from Cisco about “The World’s Broadband Leaders in 2010“, who gives you an overview on how “bad” certain countries still are, there is still a lot of work to do to give customers in certain countries the possibility to use Internet…
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What is the need for the near future (2015)??? Please follow this link.
Architects For A Better World
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Alternative Energies For A Better World
Our planet is in danger.The films below are proposed solutions to use energy on alternative ways…
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Fair Trade Labelling And Rainforest Alliance / Coffee
Why fore “Coffee” here as part of a better World??? “Coffee” stays here for “relaxing“, “tasting“, “taking part of social life” by drinking “Coffee” together with other people, which is also “harmony”. By buying also only Coffee from small companies “Fair Trade” and/or Rainforest Alliance you will help to survive small earning people and not only sponsoring the Big Concerns…
Our Existence Depends On Managing The Earth Resources
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In the modern world of ours even the authorities are chopping down the trees in the name of development. This knol pin points the great damage we are causing to the very existence of human beings by cutting down trees around the world.
A knol by Philip Verghese (PV Ariel): http://knol.google.com/k/our-existence-depends-on-trees#
Trees, Fishing and other resources… in preparation…
Helping The Third World
There are several organizations worldwide who aim for helping people as a path out of poverty, which will get displayed here:
Music As A Link For Multicultural And Generations Living Together
Music is a very good possibility for sharing feelings and for showing also the taste of different generations and nationalities. But it is not only the music, people forget much often to understand also the lyrics. So when listening to a music video why not searching to find the same with lyrics.
What are other countries listening for music??? The Charts of different countries… coming soon…
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Luxembourg (Europe) | DNR Hit-Café + RadioAktiv |
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Egypt | El Sawy Culturewheel |
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Europe | Europe TOP 20 from MTV |
Flag source: http://www.printableworldflags.com/
News Around The World
To understand better each others mentality it is good to know the news of each country and/or continent, here below some news around the world. These News are automatically actualized 24/24 hours… So, come back often to watch…| Flag | Country | Country News Web addresses |
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Flag source: http://www.printableworldflags.com/
International Food, Eating and Hunger In The World…
International Food, why fore is this section in here, sounds strange to me??? Answer: by knowing what other people are eating and also their habits on how they are eating we could understand a bit more about their lifestyle and their mentality as well as their social status…
Aware of the issues represented by the Greater Region in the economic development of the catering sector, EXPOGAST is located in Luxembourg, the business heart of the region. The opportunities offered by the international dimension of Luxembourg, Belgium, France and Germany are enhanced by the specific features of Luxembourg where 44.66% (1) of residents are foreign, expecting the highest added value to be offered, but demonstrating the particularly high level of loyalty among traditional Luxembourg visitors.
The social criteria of current and potential visitors to EXPOGAST: the international community, multiculturalism, multilingual skills and a high purchasing power are some of the factors favouring the economic development of gastronomy, culturally embedded in custom and usage.
Visit this link, please to understand more about it: EXPOGAST and the Best Link here ONT-LUXEMBOURG. 51 nations are present…more than 2,300 cooks from 5 continents…
- More photos from EXPOGAST (professional photograph)
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Hunger In The World…
Hunger In The World:
Be aware: you will see shocking photos, are you prepared for reality???
We have seen in the section above the luxury and now here below you will see the reality of poverty and Hunger in the World, think on it, please…
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What’s about about a small QUIZ??? Do you think you know really everything about “Hunger In The World”???
Try it out and you might be surprised (GM: I was surprised how less I knew…)
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Here is the link: Hunger IQ
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Related links:
- Women4Women: Aid Worker’s Insight Into Afghanistan part of World Food Programme
Multicultural Events And Associations In Different Countries…
Multicultural Events in different countries
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Luxembourg:
- Jazz and Blues Rallye (EN)
- Neighbours Feast
- Festival Celtique du Luxembourg (FR)
- Festival celtique-bealtaine (FR)
- Café des âges (First Café in Luxembourg on 12.11.2010)
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Blues’n Jazz Rallye in Luxembourg
Multicultural Associations in different countries
Luxembourg:
About Multiculturel Luxembourg-PDF File From The Ministry
- Agence Interculturelle (ASTI)
- ASTI (FR)
- Bienvenue (FR+EN)
- Inter Actions (FR+DE)
- Tiers Monde (FR+DE)
- Multicultural Clubs and Associations in Luxembourg
- International Bazar in Luxembourg (EN) —> This bazar exists since 50 ears (2010) and counted 49 nations in 2008… On December 4th and 5th 2010 more than 30,000 people will visit the 50th International Bazaar…
- Centre multiculturel OASIS (North of Luxembourg/WILTZ)
- This is 352LUXMAG’s extensive list of Clubs and Associations in Luxembourg, well worth a look-through!
Country Origines (Roots)
Egyptology
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Luxembourg (Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg)
‘Mir wölle bleiwe wat mir sin‘. It looks like German and Dutch, mixed together and means: ‘We want to stay what we are‘.
Luxembourg is one of the smallest countries of the world with 502,000 inhabitants only (2009), but also one of the richest countries in the world relating to “List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita“.Related knols and links:
- Portail Luxembourg (FR) Link is broken due to that Knol discontinued on May 1, 2012. Will get replaced later…
- Luxembourg Portal (EN) Link is broken due to that Knol discontinued on May 1, 2012. Will get replaced later…
- Luxembourg (Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg), situated in Europe
- Festival Celtique du Luxembourg (FR)
- Festival Celtique Bealtaine (FR)
- Histoire du Luxembourg History of Luxembourg in French
- History of Luxembourg (Wikipedia)
- Luxembourg in a nutshell
- Luxembourg in figures (PDF)
- Videos about Luxembourg
Possible Problems When Working Together With Different Nationalities…
- Knol aide/trucs et astuces/collaboration internationale/ (FR) Link is broken due to that Knol discontinued on May 1, 2012. Will get replaced later…
As Knol discontinued on May 1,2012 the proposed links of knols don’t work anymore! One day there will be new links proposed once the migration of these knols are done to WordPress…
What Could Be Done For Sensibility About Planet Earth Problems???
- Education can play a big role to sensibilize students about the problems of our planet by teaching learners and students about reality…
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Online games such as explained in the videos side could also help a lot for that people realize the present danger…
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Some Humor 😉
Humor is internationally accepted and understood… With humor things who normally would never get accepted could get accepted by the way of laughing about each other (very important)!
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Authors Point Of View On How To Realize A Better World
Ibrahim H. Hussney: In the world of managing and developing businesses; you need always to be near from the facts and working with the reality, the necessary existence of these two principals in the mind are for the sake of the business itself and also help not to lose the thread of the correct ways needed for developing its management, The question which may jump to your mind now, are you able alone to see this reality?. And if so; for what extend you can?
a-Establishing more relationships for widening and supporting your ideas.
- More relationships mean more people to know, mean more ideas to discover, mean more opportunities to discipline your own ideas and mean finally to get the necessary support for these ideas.
- More conversations and brainstorming to be involved with, mean to become more near to discover the better shape for the future you are looking for yourself and for your society; hence for the whole world.
- Try to suspend your assumptions for a while which always pushing you, change your thinking style from linearity to non-linearity or in spite you are always logic in your thinking you need also some creativity to express. The best is to balance between both styles.
- Never adhere yourself always to advocate your new policy; train yourself to inquire for more and more details, such behavior certainly will develop your ideas and support your advocacy at the end of the day, helping in implementing your new policy smoothly; also balancing between both issues is always required.
- Open your mind, your heart; open all of your possible windows to learn and to know whatever is new and all whatever may help in achieving your goals; train yourself to adapt the philosophy of keep moving, that will help your talent of discovering things via visiting the new places and knowing new people and cultures.
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If you succeed in accomplishing these few missions, finally you are the one who become able to establish your own better world and sharing with the better world of the others.
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Gust MEES: We are ALL humans, wherever we are living, whatever our social status is, whatever our education is, whatever our religion is, whatever our character is, whatever our opinion is, whatever our ethics are, whatever our ethnics are. Acting as a human means also sharing our knowledge to ALL the people (not necessary on a commercial way)…
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Think on that and react on a “win-win” situation when talking (also comment on Internet) to other people, please.
Think “Constructive” and not “Destructive”.
TOGETHER we build a better world, if wished so…  Ever thought about this??? Animals don’t destroy what is under their feet, but what are human people doing??? Humans (we, us) are destroying everything what is under our feet, and even in the space already now also. Is this serious???
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Ever thought to join in for helping to make a better world??? “L’union fait la force” (FR), “United We Stand“!!! (EN)
Final Word
If this blog makes you think and your grey cells are getting activated, so that your filter situated between your two ears (your brain) starts to get more activities as usual, than we as authors are very happy. Thus meaning that our message(s) made move something. Feel free to leave a constructive message and why not, if interested to join in, let us know please…
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EDU: Digital CitiZENship, CyberSecurity, eSkills, Modern EDU by Gust MEES 
