The fact that we all have a favorite food makes us all the same. We all have different ideas on what that food is, and on this level, we can greatly differ and disagree. This is the paradox that we face today. We are so caught up in our petty differences and personal identities that we lose sight of the basic, fundamental values that we all share. All the waves on the surface of the ocean seem very different. But when you go beneath, the ocean is the same and the individual waves seem to disappear. So let's celebrate our differences, not get in a conflict of them. Diversity is strength, but too much emphasis on the particular differences becomes a fatal weakness, if we don't recognize the sameness. There is only one race - the human race. We all live on the same planet and breathe the same air.