Hello everyone,
I was asked by Tara Benwell - our admin to turn my blog post Letter to Europe into this month's Writing Challenge. So... what is the task?
Write a letter to your country, give it the title Writing Challenge: Letter to..... (add name of your country, for example Letter to Czech republic) and post it as soon as possible because we all are looking forward to reading it! Don't forget to proofread it to avoid the mistakes and if you want some inspiration, read my blog bellow ;-) ohhhh.. and one more thing, as usual, post your link with the blog here among the comments (I hope it won't be messy), so that Tara could check them all...
Have fun and enjoy this month's Writing Challenge!
My dearest Europe,
you are my homeland, you are my love. Thinking back, I wasn't so much aware of it and exactly like others I took many things for granted. You are a peaceful place one can spend their life in and enjoy it. Your historical herritage is undescribable and magnificiant, so no wonder you are being called "Old contintent". So many famous, important people were born in you such as great philosophers, mathematicians, doctors, writers, scientist, musicians, painters, kings etc. And it just proves you are civilized place, where people can develope their skills, can be understood and have many opportunities to show the whole world their talent and abilities.
Anyway, dear Europe, I know that nothing is as awesome as it looks like and you had to suffer a lot during the World War 2, especially your inhabitants and the countries that were attacked. However, you made it, you became once more again powerful and peaceful place and stood up from the ruins.
My Europe, I know life is not easy and nowadays the situation is a bit complicated. You are under the big pressure and things are not certain because so many people would like to live in you to change their lives, to try their luck but the question is: "How to compromise?" It is very sensitive issue but not that hard and it looks like we all simply go with the flow. In fact, the numbers of the immigrants entering your soil are being increased day by day, hour by hour and honestly I feel really sad about this situation. On one hand desperate people coming from the countries demaged by war or places one can hardly live in but with naive imagination about "awesome" life in you my dear Europe and... on the other hand insolvable situation when it comes to the cultural, religious conlflict and the life style in general.
Well, my dear Europe, nothing is for free and that is why we work hard, yes ...your inhabitants work hard to get some good life, future, they study to get good education, they are not illiterate and follow some unwritten rules, follow your culture because they were born in you. So do believe me, Europe that I feel like crying to see the immigrants sleeping in Croatian cemetery between the graves. I feel like crying to watch the video from Belgium, where immigrants scream at local women on the street rude words just because they are not covered. I feel like crying to read from reputated journalist, who spent time with the immigrants on their journey that they waste food they were given or scream at local women offering them food in Hungary: "Where is your man? You can't be alone on the street!" Of course, every action has its reaction but it is distusting and impossible for me to tolerate or excuse attacks of Hungarian cameraman or racist attacks in Germany against the immigrants.
I am not racist, Europe, I love people, no matter if they are black, white, yellow or green, anyway what I can't overlook is disrespect towards you, your culture and your inhabitants. This is the only one thing which hurts me. I wish one day people would show tolerance, respect and humbleness towards each other, towards country they moved in because only like this they can live together without the problems. However, I am not naive and to build up this all is a question of many, many next generations. So my dearest, lovely Europe… let's see what will win, if humanity or fights…
Love,
Luci
P.S. This blog is not here to start some fights because I myself believe that humanity might one day win. It is here just to show my view and express, what one innocent inhabitant of Europe feels...
Comments
Dear Luci, thanks for your nice blog. I believe that nobody has right to come to your country and blame you for your attitudes and culture. If someone doesn't like it, he or she could just choose not to go to that country. If circumstances force them to migrate so they should at least respect them. Sometimes my friends think I am so western -like but i consider myself as rational one. I always adore European people different perspective, their courage to look at things differently , to inquire everything, their tolerance of ambiguity, their open-mindedness and their eagerness to learn new things. we are not our governments; we might vote for them but it doesn't mean we approve everything about them. So many scientists from different countries who were forced to leave their own country because of having different attitudes were welcomed by your counties; they could use their talent because of the facility that countries like yours provided for them. So we should be fair when we want to judge people.
the catastrophe that is going on in middle east is mostly our own fault. we should accept the responsibility and try to fix it. If we do not practice what we have learned through our religion, so what's the point of claiming that we are so called religious people. what happened to us "Muslim people "? why we are killing each other why?
Ahoy Lucy! greetings to the old continent that is open to many different ethnics and ethics.before, and now, I hope it is ready for the new ones.
Hi Luci, well written. You have every right to express your opinions. The good thing about freedom of speech is we say what we think and we don't try to hide anything, so we can have a better understanding towards each other.
The European migrant crisis is a challenging issue for anyone involved. While people have great sympathy and compassion for these people from war-torn zones, it also makes us to wonder if there is a solution right there.
When I first heard of the proactive announcement from Germany, I was very happy for those first arrivals. Meanwhile I was deeply concerned and not long after, the things went out of control as I thought to be.
As a migrant myself, I know exactly how hard assimilation can be ... :(( Nevertheless, I'd like to hear of what people really think. So well done Luci.
Alice, thanx, I will read it ;-)
Saba, how can u judge all the european people on the basis of weapon industry? Do I or my kids or all people I know have something to do with this? It is as if I said all Iranian people are not peaceful since their country hid nuclear weapons? I am talking here about behaviour of immigrants coming to Europe...
Hi Luci!
From your blog, we understand that Europeans are so friendly with each other and never fight again.Now, this question comes to the mind, "Why do they make so many weapons?"
" To make rest of the world a hell?!!!"
The world's top arms exporters are:
1. USA 2. Russia 3. Germany 4. France 5. United Kingdom
http://www.myenglishclub.com/profiles/blogs/writing-challenge-a-let...
Hi Luci here is my letter. :)
Batu, I was told Gulf countries aren't in love with Syria...and it is really good question because since you all are brothers and sisters, love the same God.. where is some support? help in need? :/
I just read the comment of lady noor and the reply b y luci , let me see it from neutral view
for lady noor with all respect you are one of those arab and muslims who see themselves as innocents and victims who always blame america and western countries for their weakness and failures who believe in conspiracy theory , let me ask u about what is happening in syria do you want america to military interfere to get rid of syrian regime ? about muslims in burma where are you muslims countries ? you are more than one billion muslims why don't u interfere to help your brothers and sisters muslims in burma ? oh by the way there were thousands of egyptian muslims who got burnt and killed by your great army in the break up of the sit in rabia aladawia and renaissance square , and if you mention that in public your dictator regime will send u to jail , about humanity where is your country from gaza people your country always close the crossing between them and gaza , about brotherhood why does your government consider hamas in gaza as a terrorist group while they consider isreal as their friend and neighbor ? tell me what did your country do for those immigrants ? another thing you said that countries like great britain france invaded africa and divided between , be honest and neutral did not muslims invade and conquest spain and many countries they even reached china more than a thousand year because they had the power to control and seize different countries ? this is human nature who has the power will use it for his interest so don't blame those countries about what they did in the past .
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