Limitations of words.While living in Malaysia, I got sick and tired of hearing this slogan being cited countless times by political leaders. “We must be tolerant towards other races and live harmoniously together.”How to live harmoniously if you always have to remind yourself to be TOLERANT towards OTHER races???In Australia, we hear political leaders urging us to “celebrate our diversity”. That sounds much better, at least superficially because the Australians being native English speakers exercise a smarter choice of words to express themselves more positively. But if you really get down to it, you can’t help but wonder - if we are so comfortable with each other, why the hell do we still see ourselves as being different from one another, hence the word ‘diverse’? Aren’t we all one race, the human race, regardless of our skin tones???If our political leaders are really as colour blind as they say they are, they should not be using words like “others” nor “diversity”, “tolerate” nor “celebrate”.At the end of the day, remember this. Politicians need problems so that they can sell their solutions. Don’t fight your enemies. But why call them your enemies in the first place???When you say don’t fight, all the listener can think about is fight!Try telling your primary school kids don’t smoke and don’t do drugs now. You’re only putting cigarettes and drugs into their minds before they can even start thinking about it! But isn’t that what our politicians are doing to us everyday?