Unity in Diversity: Holding the World through Connections

Ella, a freshman at a college has a roommate from Thailand. Although they are from different countries which are thousands of miles apart, as time passed, they realize how they are related as well. Once after Ella finally received her clothes, which she had ordered online, she was going through the tag to check if she got the correct size. As she was doing this, Ella noticed that the dress was made in Thailand. She was fascinated about the coincidence of having ordered a dress made in the same country her roommate was from. She then realized that now, she isn't just related to Thailand because of her roommate. She acknowledged that she is now connected with many other Thai citizens who had influenced in the making of the dress she ordered. Now, she wasn't just happy because she received her dress, but was also happy about how she has connected and influenced the personal lives of people living thousands of miles away from her.
The situation above is an example of how we encounter people and objects that are connected to countless other places all over the globe. We sometimes fail to realize how things we see every day are connected to the outside world. In the above example, Ella too, initially did not realize how she could be connected to the lives of people around the globe. When we look into different things, we usually do not associate them with how it is connected to the outside world. We usually concentrate on the final product itself but do not link with how they have origins as well. It is not just products. There are many other things and even places that associate us with the outside world although they may initially be invisible to us. When we think of global connectedness in our local society we usually think of place...

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...vent them from using it completely. Therefore, as we use Pharmaceuticals, we are linked with a chain of people around the globe.
As I was coming back home, I realized that although I am living in a small city, I am connected to the global world in numerous ways at different times. However, we rarely notice these connections we have. We reflected on how Ella realized her connection to Thailand as she noticed her clothes made were made there. Even in a small town, we were successful in finding how we are connected to the outside world influencing the lives of different people. Many things we do in our locality determine people's personal lives thousands of miles away from us. Therefore, although we categorize the places and things we pass by everyday as local places or local things, there may be a lot of global connection giving us a sense of unity in diversity.