{"id":56482,"date":"2024-04-26T13:37:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T11:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/let-us-be-open\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T09:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:32:12","slug":"be-open","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/be-open\/","title":{"rendered":"BE OPEN"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"56482\" class=\"elementor elementor-56482 elementor-31863\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-298f675 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"298f675\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-17e6a02\" data-id=\"17e6a02\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-68185d3c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"68185d3c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">LIVE WITHOUT HARM! BE OPEN (BUT NOT TO WHAT IS HARMFUL)<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-76b48863 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"76b48863\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-57fbe72\" data-id=\"57fbe72\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61244ce9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"61244ce9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image001.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"BE OPEN\" src=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image001-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-wp-editing=\"1\"><\/a><\/p><p>Harmful groupthink is a major source of suffering for many innocent people. It has caused numerous wars, genocides, ethnic cleansings, persecutions, and other atrocities that have left hundreds of millions dead, injured, traumatized, orphaned, tortured, and other kinds of innocent victims. Therefore, it must be fought in order to build a happier world to live in. <\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-align: -webkit-center;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/do-no-harm-be-open-and-avoid-harmful-gregariousness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read LIVE WITHOUT HARM: Avoid harmful herd mentality <\/em><\/a><\/p><p>The best antidote is open-mindedness and mental openness.<\/p><p align=\"center\"><strong>LET US ENCOURAGE OPEN-MINDEDNESS<\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Without giving up what is local, let us promote a more universal outlook, for example in the following ways:<\/p><p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>1.<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: bold; background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size );\">World history<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">: teach it in schools <\/span><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">instead of national narratives, while at the same time including the historical particularities of the municipality or area where each school is located. Obviously, these must be presented with the objectivity of a good historian and not with the epic tone of a nationalist.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/challenging-the-nationalist-narratives-that-cause-conflict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/no-danes\/publicaciones\/cuestionemos-las-narrativas-nacionalistas-causantes-de-conflictos\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1714217446083000&amp;usg=AOvVaw336qfQO5rzW7Vgi8rAwtzG\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT HARMING? Let&#8217;s question nationalist narratives that cause conflicts<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/lets-dismantle-identity-indoctrination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/no-danes\/publicaciones\/deshagamos-el-adoctrinamiento-identitario\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1714217446083000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3EmlRuMwMn1JcSyZN3cbth\">FOR A WORLD WITHOUT HARM: Let us undo identity-based indoctrination that distances us from others<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p><p><strong>2. <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: bold; background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size );\">World literature: <\/span><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">give preference to teaching it <\/span><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">over local literature, since the true cultural heritage of all people is not only the latter, but the sum of all literary works.<\/span><\/p><p><strong>3. Other cultural expressions<\/strong>: do the same with art, architecture, music, etc. Instead of distinguishing between what is ours and what belongs to others, let us tell the truth: intellectual property belongs only to the author of each work, and the enjoyment of it is the heritage of all humanity. <\/p><p><strong>4. English<\/strong>: promote its teaching as the lingua franca of the entire world, so that it is mastered at a native level, while at the same time respecting local languages. Let language be: <\/p><ul><li>No obstacle to relating to anyone in the world, since its function is to communicate.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>No identity-based border that distances us instead of bringing us closer.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Not a problem, but a solution.<\/li><\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/colegios-orientados-a-la-felicidad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read &#8220;Schools oriented toward happiness&#8221;<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p><p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/politica-orientada-a-la-felicidad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read &#8220;Politics oriented toward happiness&#8221;<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p><p>Let us learn<span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\"> from countries with a high level of English as a foreign language: the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland. It also helps a great deal that on television, films and series are usually in the original version<\/span><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); background-color: var(--base-2);\"> with subtitles.<\/span><\/p><p><strong style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size );\">5. Do not indoctrinate in identities<\/strong><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">, but rather let each person choose those they consider appropriate.<\/span><\/p><p align=\"center\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/think-for-yourself-and-say-no-to-toxic-indoctrination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/no-danes\/publicaciones\/pensemos-por-nosotros-mismos-y-digamos-no-al-adoctrinamiento-toxico\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1714217446083000&amp;usg=AOvVaw14IO_msG1C_chDPSPTcU96\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">THE ART OF LIVING WITHOUT HARM: Let us think for ourselves and avoid toxic indoctrination<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p><p><strong>6. Cosmopolitanism<\/strong>: promote it so there is a more global outlook, while at the same time respecting each person\u2019s identities, so that there is a balance between civic spirit\u2014wanting what is best for the place where one lives\u2014and being, at the same time, a citizen of the world.<\/p><p><strong>7. Interdependence between countries<\/strong>: encourage it, as well as free trade and the integration of states that have sufficient similarities.<\/p><p><strong>8. Immigration policy<\/strong> open to those who come to contribute, but closed to those who come to take away. Being open<span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\"> is not incompatible with a selective immigration policy, choosing those who will contribute the most to the country. <\/span><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); background-color: var(--base-2);\">No country can take in the entire world, so the logical approach is to screen based on rational criteria\u2014not race, nationality, religion, etc.\u2014but rather those who will contribute the most to making the country functional, safe, prosperous, free, tolerant, civilized, and with the greatest possible well-being.<\/span><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">. <\/span><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); color: #3366ff;\"><u><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/let-us-avoid-harmful-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/no-danes\/publicaciones\/evitemos-la-inmigracion-danina\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1714217446083000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2qs5R8BfkBZ5Ob9_81XIXc\">read more\u2026<\/a><\/u> <\/span>  <\/p><p align=\"center\"><strong>LET US BE OPEN-MINDED AND AT THE SAME TIME SELECTIVE<\/strong><\/p><p>Let us be open to other ideas and ways of operating while questioning the beliefs and practices of our own group, being selective with both our inherited cultural heritage and those of others. With both the native and the foreign, it is advisable to adopt the positive and discard the harmful, with a focus on excellence.  Let us maintain a balance between preserving what is good and changing what can be improved. <span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">To begin with, let us be open; but when we detect harm toward innocents, let us close ourselves off to it.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a style=\"text-align: start; background-color: var(--base-2); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/strive-for-excellence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LET&#8217;S BUILD A BETTER WORLD!: Let&#8217;s strive for excellence to achieve it<\/a><\/em><\/p><p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/preserve-the-good-and-change-the-harmful\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/no-danes\/publicaciones\/seamos-conservadores-con-lo-bueno-y-progresistas-con-lo-danino\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1714217446083000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3L_7SAGg1NFbd3yPqDNLvq\">THE REVOLUTION OF LIVING WITHOUT HARM: Let us be conservative about what is good and progressive about what is harmful.<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">Going abroad for a period to study or work, as well as making friends from different backgrounds and origins, also helps to open the mind.<\/span><\/p><p>Let us open up like a flower instead of being ignorant fools who keep stumbling over the same stone again and again\u2014repeating the barbaric atrocities of the past, whether ethnic, racial, religious, nationalist, ideological, or stemming from other kinds of groupthink\u2014if what we want is to spare suffering and live in a happier world.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/no-danes\/publicaciones\/no-seamos-racistas-etnicistas-xenofobos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/no-danes\/publicaciones\/no-seamos-racistas-etnicistas-xenofobos\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1714217446083000&amp;usg=AOvVaw05nxaDZnrEXTqcWLCpnxOO\">LET US AVOID HARM!: Raise awareness of the harm caused by racism, ethnicism, and nationalism<\/a><\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/no-danes\/publicaciones\/no-seamos-racistas-etnicistas-xenofobos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>LET US LIVE WITHOUT HARM! Let us not be racist, ethnicist, xenophobic, or ultra-nationalist <\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/lets-reform-the-harmful-part-of-religions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>LIVING WITHOUT HARM: Let us look at the harm caused by religions<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/lets-change-harmful-ways-of-thinking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT HARM?: Let us move away from the Decalogue of Evil<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p><p>Let us replace tribal closed-mindedness with greater openness to the world, small-town provincialism with a more universal outlook, and narrow-mindedness with a broader perspective that is also reasonably 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