In this day and age, a growing number of people are focusing on interpersonal communication, with the rapid development of the technology which makes the exchange of information between individuals or countries more convenient than before. When it comes to the barriers that separate the human race, people are always divided into several camps. Some individuals assert that external factors like different languages, cultural diversity and vast distances contribute to that kind of barriers, while many others contend that internal elements as the lack of mutual understandings on spiritual level is the essence of such limits. As far as I am concerned, I side with the latter opinion reservedly.
In terms of external factors, I suppose stories which happened in Morocco which was set as one part of Babel(2006), an international drama film presented by Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu, showed something about them. In Morocco, a local boy was testing his father’s rifle. All of a sudden, his bullets hit a bus, critically wounding Susan Jones, an American woman who was traveling with her husband Richard Jones. After that, the Jones suffered a lot to seek for aid from their American companions, local government and the American embassy. Because of the differences lie in language and culture between the couple and the locals, and the disparity existed between America and Morocco, the American couple were sank into a total disappointment. Other guests from the U.S.A. abandoned them, whilst the embassy had no means to aid them. Here, different languages and culture, lead to the Jones’ desperate situation.
On the other hand, other American tourists, although spoke the same language as the Jones, didn’t care about their sufferings, but thought about their own safety. The local residents, on the contrary, showed them their primitive but genuine help, without ability of speaking their mother tongue. From my perspective, this demonstrated that the essence of barriers that alienate human beings had always been being kind of internal factors.
Based on all the views offered above, I would concede that different languages, cultural diversity and vast distances all contribute to mutual misunderstandings. Despite that, the lack of exchanges between hearts and souls is the most important cause that leads to barriers that separate human beings. That is to say, without sincere and inner communications, people will not reach to truly understanding.
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