RIFLE RANGE BOY: They had a good thing going...

They had a good thing going. All cultures living in harmony, all showcasing their legacy and ancestry. Everyone embraced each other’s culture with respect. No one mocks another. The Jewish who was followed by the Christians then the Muslim and the Christians again all contributed their influences in the own way. Food, architecture, music, language and dressing all had each other’s touch. Collectively they came to be known as Spanish culture - the Bull Fight, the Flamenco dance, the Islamic geometric art, the buildings and many more.

Then they came, the people who told they were different. First, they came with hands stretched for alms. Then when they regained strength, they try to bite the hands that fed them. They started saying they were special, forgetting that they were not so much ‘chosen’ when they were starving and wandering as refugees. Worse of all, they try to impose their belief systems on the majority and be combative about it. They fail to realise, plurality is the nature of mankind. Multiculturalism is a norm. People accept differences. It is very much like what is written in their scriptures, which they chose to ignore - God created Man different so as they could know one another; your religion yours and his religion his.