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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Christmas truce - joyeux noel


This is the true human spirit that shines through here. This is what prompted us to evolve into "social" animals - prompted us to use our brains and develop them. Kids should be shown such things in school and taught to value humanity more than stupid geographical and cultural stereotypes. Education in India is seriously lacking in teaching us such basic principles. So many educated people we meet everyday carry such deep biases against people within their countries itself, just because they talk and behave differently. Its a national shame for a place like India.

I like the scene where they show the priest talking nonsense as if ordained by god to spread war on earth. Chooo saala !!

http://www.sonyclassics.com/joyeuxnoel/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce

The "Christmas truce" is a term used to describe several brief unofficial cessations of hostilities that occurred on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day between German and British or French troops in World War I, particularly that between British and German troops stationed along the Western Front during Christmas 1914. In 1915 there was a similar Christmas truce between German and French troops, and during Easter 1916 a truce also existed on the Eastern Front.

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