So my question is how do you think I or even we should break these barriers? And what are some other Barriers we face today?
I will take quote each of the different barriers you mentioned and share some thoughts.
Other barriers we face, that I notice often, are for example barriers based on what "group" we belong to. That annoys me a lot since I'm a very open person, I can talk to almost anyone having fun. It's sad when in school people are sorted into specific groups, so that a person interested in music can't connect with someone interested in sports etc. since they simply are from different groups.
Or more generally barriers based on prejudices, for example the barrier between a Christian and non Christian, based on misunderstandings about each other.
The male female barrier (Gender Barrier)
I usually just talk to the guys of my church or even just my school.
One time a nice girl that had many friends dropped her books, and I hesitated to help her usually because my some people would tease me. But for me that isn't a good excuse.
I think this is a barrier that definitely should be broken. Personally I have no problem at all breaking most of the social codes we've. I have always been friends with both boys and girl - and in these cases where I've got teased and such I simply haven't cared. Doesn't work for anyone, where I live it's quite normal to have both girls as friend as well as boys. Maybe you should start with church if you want to break this barrier, people should be less judging and teasing there!
The Older younger Barrier
How comfortable are you with talking to somebody older?
Same here actually, ought to be broken. We can learn so much form each other through different age-groups. Personally I would hangout with people 20+ as an everyday thing, but it's not like I won't talk to them while meething them. Nor avoiding contact with them at gatherings where you actually meet this age-group. The only way to destroy this barrier is to interact with each other. Mostly I'm pretty comfortable doing it - actually spent a 3 hour long bus trip with a random old man who moved from a seat in front back to my seat, just to talk. That was interesting!
The language Barrier
I go to a Hmong because I am Hmong but I don't speak Hmong which makes it difficult to understand the Hmong sermon.
The language barrier is probably the toughest of all of these. Actually I don't have to face this very often, but it's really limiting. Where do you live? I don't know anything about your life or why you have decided to do what, but if you have the chance to go to a church where you could understand the language that would be better? Of course that doesn't brake the barriers, but in some situations it's maybe better to leave those barriers alone? Well, you could always try to learn Hmong, but I wouldn't try to learn it by going to sermons with that language
