Recent Reston Multicultural Festival Baha'i Booth on Sept 20th 2025 

  • We had a great interactive contribution to the festival that included coloring for the children and an opportunity for all to post a sticky note to contribute to a survey on: "How does a muticultural society enrich Reston (or your community)?  Public Comments:
    • Learning, inspiring, creating.

    • Encourages all individuals to become culturally competent.

    •  To learn that there are many diverse ways of identifying and solving a problem.

    • Happy that my grandkids are growing up loving a multicultural society.

    • We all share so much in common. Focus on the good.

    • Learn about other cultures. Open my mind.

    • Shows us that there’s more than just one community.

    • It helps create more love, unity, and peace locally and helps our community become an example of how to make the world a better place.

    • Shows us how to celebrate cultural differences.

    • Enjoy meeting other moms from different nationalities.

    • We realize we are more similar than we thought.

    • Diversity enriches life and community in general.

    • Every community should have one common goal for achievement.

    • Diversity keeps us together.

    • There should be no room for division.

    • Diversity allows us opportunities to be exposed to unique perspectives.

    • Different conversations about their culture:

      •  Food

      •  Clothes

      •  Dance

    • It makes us unique.

    • Universality without uniformity.

    • Exposes you to people and cultures from around the world which goes a long ways towards openness and acceptance – plus delicious foods. 

    •  Provides different experiences that help shape our world better through empathy.

    • Helps us make friends.

    • We believe in:

      • ​Acceptance

      • Allowance

      • Love to embrace the differences rather than fight them.

    • We can learn about the beauty of our neighbors. Make friends from all walks of life.

    • Makes it better and vibrant.

    • Promotes unity through diversity.

    • Multiculturalism offers multiple approaches to society’s problems and brings us all together.

    • Everyone should love one another.

    • Create an environment of learning and joy.

    • Diversity makes us together. Together we are stronger.

    • It helps us recognize every single individual as a unique soul, each with something very special to contribute to making the world better.

    • Provides perspectives and understanding from around the world.

    • Brings different people from different backgrounds together. Promotes a sense of community.

    • Everyone belongs in part because no single group dominates.

    •  Multiculturalism is part of everyday life. That was part of Bob Simon’s vision that we realize.

    • Inclusivity is a beautiful thing, so seeing diversity will enrich the minds to different perspectives.

    • It helps us understand and connect with people on a different level. A diverse community will have infinite strengths.

    • To make the community come together.

    • Diversity makes us a more fun society because we all have different fun things to share.

    • We are all beautiful souls living the human experience.

    • We are all part of one world. If each part is better, the whole will be better.

    • We will progress if all people are recognized as important, special, and as contributors.

    • Unity in diversity.

    • Because we are all different and have different fun things to share.

    • Helps to have diverse cultural friends.

    • Diversity makes us stronger.

    • Shows us that we all want the same things; peace, health, happiness.

    • People together can do a lot. Let’s blend it and work for it.

    • Everyone belongs.

 

 

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Baha'is of Reston, Va.
P.O. Box 2085

Reston, 20190


Text/Phone: (571)-306-0043
(text for Spanish, Farsi, Arabic, and Chinese)

 

E-mail: info@restonbahai.org

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