Ours is a "gathering" land. A land that gathers its children, who are returning to it from the ends of the earth. From one hundred and more countries, and speaking over eighty languages. Each ethnic community has its customs, each land its ways, and they do not resemble one another.
They are equal in that they hold the ways of their forefathers, whose customs light the way for them. Those who preach a consolidation of these ethnic communities are unaware of the great loss and damage that could be caused by a consolidation that would blur and lose the glorious and lovely values, customs and traditions that each community has maintained for two thousand years. A vase holding different flowers of a wealth of color and perfume is preferable to one holding flowers of a single type and color.
Our intention and objective in "unifying" the ethnic communities and "joining" the tribes one to another follows Ezekiel's prophecy, "And you, son of Man, take a stick…bring them close to each other, so they become one stick, joined together in your hand." Bring them close together, but do not consolidate them and blur their differences. What is unique must be preserved within the union.