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I would encourage all of us to be self-critical, to try harder to understand, and perhaps accept, other opinions. I start with myself

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Merry Christmas, but where is the 'season of goodwill'?

I was still being wheeled around in a pram when my parents began to predict that I would one day become a lawyer. The prediction was based on the size of my forehead, something in my facial expression and a general bookish passivity — a sharp contrast to my action-oriented siblings. True, I did not see the point of determining the substance of things by smashing them with a hammer.

What has that got to do with anything, you may ask? It has to do with

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Michael Meyer-Resende is the executive director of Democracy Reporting International, a non-partisan NGO in Berlin that supports political participation. He writes here in a personal capacity.

I would encourage all of us to be self-critical, to try harder to understand, and perhaps accept, other opinions. I start with myself

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Michael Meyer-Resende is the executive director of Democracy Reporting International, a non-partisan NGO in Berlin that supports political participation. He writes here in a personal capacity.

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