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There was need also to restore, or to establish anew, an open equilibrium of the divers racial, ethnic and cultural affiliations. These past several years of intense conflicting positioning had repelled from the flow a number of individuals whose values prevented them from adhering one way or another. Now, for the entire community to freely subscribe and participate in this quest for an acceptable and progressive organizational form, one had to give their voices back to all those who had kept mute. Our cultural origin, which largely determines our comprehension of the world and of the others, is in fact but a sum of data coming from the past and transmitted through our genes and our environment = positive and negative data closely interwoven conditioning all of our responses and expressions as long as the inner being or the spiritual consciousness have not become active in our personal existence. To create bridges and bonds, to educate, to encourage exchanges and even the mixing of the races, cultures and communities, are processes that require considerable time – generations; and we know how the official history presented to children can be sectarian, partial and subject to manipulations. Then, what better proposition at the service of human unity than to offer to individuals of different cultures a single common task that may mobilize the best of oneself at every moment? For, whether each participant draws this best at one’s cultural sources, in one’s own creative, intellectual and emotional resources, or directly in one’s soul, the offering born of it will be clear.

And such indeed was a raison d’être of Her city.

An example and a means of neutralizing – and, eventually, dissolving – the specters of destruction.

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