AMERICAN POP CULTURE conquered the world long ago, what with jazz, rock n roll, american movies, stars, and so forth. It is because the united states is economically and militarily very powerful, because amerca has great talent, both, or neither?
Consider Neil Diamond, successful singer song wirter from new york city who has been around a long time, and has fans in many countries. Neil Diamond is jewish, big time, going all the way back to his early childhood, being taken to synagogue daily, reading the torah, following the rules and diet, and so forth.
But of course neil diamond broke out of the new york city jewish community to conquer first america, then the world. Meanwhile, christianity and islam, both religions offspring of judaism, continue to fight it out, insults, prejudices compiled and compounded. A comment here, a movie there, between christians and moslems, while the jews must surely look on, agog.
A dude like neil diamond must be sitting back, looking at it all, and shaking his head in disbelief, because someone like him, who has spent his life in high density multiculturalism, understands the basic truth that we can all get along, if we just want to, if we just try. if you can do it in his neighborhood in the big apple, you can do it anywhere.
by going to synagogue all his life, and observing the world, and seeing the world, neil diamond has come to understand that people of all faiths, of jadaic, christian, islam, and all other faiths - are perfectly fine just the way they are..
...and that we need not judge another, hate each other, or fight each other, and that the choice is ours.
Bb
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