What Being a Westerner Means to Me

Why I am here- and also- What being a Westerner means to me

I suppose at the end of the day my real reason for being here is to build bridges with the people, especially the younger ones. Building bridges, not walls might be my motto. Also to spread the values of democracy and human rights, as if we from the West don't do this, even at times forcefully, we may be overwhelmed by successful tyrannies, treating their population like slaves and threatening our economies. We need to spread the values of freedom, especially in Asian countries like Japan and China, as they will be of great importance in the world economy. We need to ensure that human rights are the norm, not human wrongs- either can produce a working economy- yet only the former is good and right. we have to help to build good, peaceful societies around the world, as as to make the tyrannous ones the exception and empower those who inhabit them to take back their lands and call their lives their own.

This is all possible, if not inevitable. It is certainly, in my eyes, in God's plan, most prominently for America and Britain, as the strongest and most vital of the democracies. How we do this, on the other hand, is often for us to decide- and a mixture of kindness and firmness is called for, appropriately administered. Whilst America certainly has superior resources, to a certain extent the UK has superior knowledge and wisdom. Together then can certainly make a change for the better- and if they fail to, the tyrannies of the world will attempt to spread their darkness and overpower human freedom. We must ensure that this never happens and that God's plans are not thwarted by the 'wicked ones'- who hide behind petty nationalism to spread despair.