ABSTRACT
The most significant differences between peoples, as outlined by children, are the differences of culture and language. They are aware that they live in a pluralistic world, with countries that have different habits and other ways of life. There is a sense of pragmatic sophistication, a realization that other people all over the world share their own separate individual outlook and that each is different. The differences are specifically linguistic, a mark of cultural relativism. Cultural relativism can be turned into the threat of the enemy, the nation against which it is possible to join in mutual self-defence. Political relations between nations seem to rest on two factors. One is the fact that each nation has its own system, and own independence. The other is the traffic, not of trade, but of charity, as if relationships were distinctly ones of need and response to need.
