It's a uniquely human achievement.

leading the world, living its own life.

Remember when this blue box was all alone, leading the world, living its own life.

Recognition of our mutual interdependence requires us to acknowledge the uniqueness of each individual and each culture even into the broader environment and to learn to live with the differences as with the commonalities.

The world has found it hard to grasp the at first untenable contradiction implied in the fact that we have entered a period, in the development of human society and international relations, of the broadest national individualization based on a most comprehensive civilizational integration.