Flusser's message in my opinion is a point driven home. The message is succinct touching on the outward and inward way of living in the present multicultural environment. It emphasizes on the importance of maintaining the touch of home, Heimat as the author denotes it. Learning and integrating different languages, cultures, myths, originations, and the way of living or behavior is decisive to the universal liaison and increases the chances of an individual to integrate to the society. It is distinguishable to separate intense Heimat, and the opposite brought out when an individual finds him/herself in the situation like that of Flusser.
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How I feel about Flusser's message
Flusser's message in my opinion is a point driven home. The message is succinct touching on the outward and inward way of living in the present multicultural environment. It emphasizes on the importance of maintaining the touch of home, Heimat as the author denotes it. I love this story. The article exemplifies various connotations necessary for a human being to interact well with other members of the society. Heimat is a simple exemplification of the various connotations, which try to bring out the "home" of an individual in the society. For instance, it is exhilarating to find the name existing among different cultures, and not German and Czech alone. This gives total broth to Flusser's ideas and nuance as he discussed the challenge of the immigrant.
Learning and integrating different languages, cultures, myths, originations, and the way of living or behavior is decisive to the universal liaison and increases the chances of an individual to integrate to the society. This is what Fusser tries to integrate into human sensibilities. With this consideration, one thing which comes out clear, and which makes me as if the message is the fact that humanity is not all about hosting, keeping, losing, or even regaining Heimat. It is important to be a member of a particular Heimat. It feels like you are at domicile and everything is okay. The feeling is exceptional. Nonetheless, not all people are providential to live and love within their fastidious Heimats. It is distinguishable to separate intense Heimat, and the opposite brought out when an individual finds him/herself in the situation like that of Flusser.
The traditional and rudimentary human living and interaction is all directed to the charisma of the Heimat. As such, it is imperative to comprehend a one Heimat just for the sake of living. Besides, Fusser's message on the challenge of a migrant comes to me as a challenge and an inspiration on how I can be able to live within a Heimat, and be able to embrace the key and open sesame to unlock other Heimats and welcome them into my conscience.
Our dwellings are our dwellings and will remain so when one subscribes to a certain Heimat. This means that everything that takes place in the human life has enormous regards to the temperament and form of the dwelling of an individual. Flusser reiterates the fact, "homeland is not an eternal value but rather a function of a specific technology; still, whoever loses it suffers" (Flusser and Anke 12). Human beings are attracted to Heimat to the extent that they are not even able to experience how it feels to be in conscious presence of another Heimat. Our own Heimat is significant. We are even not able to comprehend and let consciousness be part of the bonds and linking strategies, which binds us with our Heimat. As such, an individual's Heimat remains his or her Heimat. Our belonging is dictated by our dwellings either being of the same or different Heimat. This is according to Flusser. Humanity belongs to the Heimat of origin, known or unknown. Nonetheless, this does not mean that one cannot belong to a newly acquired Heimat.
With other people's sense of belonging in the world, human life can be regarded as a sensible entity, which can embrace any chance of diversity. The society is gradually turning out to compose many cultures. Multiculturalism is taking place. In fact, the sense of belonging that an individual should embrace should be the one that is derived from the society, which has embraced multiculturalism. This is because the feeling of belonging comes from the sense of belonging to a given Heimat, then extending to other Heimats around in order to appreciate diversity and the belongingness of other people.
How this message affects me as an individual
This message affects my thoughts in various ways. The feeling of Heimat centrally touches on the difference which exists between different communities in the society. This has been given a vivid description by Flusser through his work on the challenges of an immigrant. My thoughts are skewed to accept the fact that being an immigrant faces many challenges and problems. Nonetheless, theses challenges are experienced because of the perceptions other people have upon their own Heimat together with the perceived Heimat of other people. It turns out to be challenging because once an individual has engaged in espousing other Heimats and allow the entry of other Heimats into the conscious mind, the feeling of being a foreigner seems to fade. This is the nice feeling, which coincides with my thoughts as far as Flusser's comments are concerned.
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