About
#diversity in
#Berlin, exemplified by the
#CarnivalofCultures, an annual
#event held around the time of Pentecost since 1996.
While in the 21st century we hear talk everywhere of
#borders that must be kept closed, while a backward-looking fixation on
#nationalpride grows ever more popular, and while the multitude of the less gifted focus their energies on
#exclusion and
#violence, there also exist the "
#globalized." They are distinguished by their higher
#education,
#lifeexperience,
#intellect, and curiosity; by a fascination with every form of
#difference; and by a sense of belonging to the entire world. And it is with this world that they communicate - daily - or through which they travel, crossing all borders, both national and cultural, without hesitation.
Berlin celebrates this diversity. Not merely at the
#Carnival of
#Cultures, but as a matter of
#principle, every single day, and almost everywhere. In this context, it is entirely irrelevant who encounters whom, whether Africans, Arabic people, Asians, Jews, Eastern Europeans, Southern Europeans, or Germans - or what erotic preferences,
#lifestyles, gender identities, or spiritual inclinations any individual may hold.
#Peaceful exchange, travel, multilingualism, conversation, shared laughter and dance, an appetite for diversity,
#mutuallearning, intellectual
#discourse,
#trade, and
#geneticintermingling, as well as the constructive handling of conflict, have always been the most vital
#drivingforces of
#humanevolution. Anything else can achieve nothing other than bringing about the exact opposite. The exact opposite of human evolution is human extinction!
©
#Stefan F. Wirth, May 2026, Berlin
#Friedrichshain
#Photos:
© S.F.Wirth, May 2026
Photos:
Karneval der Kulturen street procession, Frankfurter Allee, Friedrichshain, © Stefan F. Wirth, 2026