{"id":12179,"date":"2021-06-29T05:05:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T04:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maltahumanist.org\/?p=12179"},"modified":"2021-06-29T05:05:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T04:05:31","slug":"the-courage-to-face-the-unfamiliar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanistsmalta.org\/mt\/prml\/2021\/uncategorized\/12179\/the-courage-to-face-the-unfamiliar\/","title":{"rendered":"The courage to face the unfamiliar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reaction to the State of the Nation Survey<\/p>\n<p>If there is anything which is consistent throughout the political, religious and cultural aspects emerging from the state of the nation survey &#8211; be it politics, religion, or culture &#8211; it is that as a nation we tend to stick with what is familiar and shun that which is different, strange, and \u201cother\u201d: Only 27% even dare consider voting to the other political party, just 9% feel comfortable with mixing cultures, while equality and solidarity are 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