What we do matters more than labels
April 26, 2010 4:06 p.m. EDT
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Anousheh Ansari: When I saw the world from space, human divisions didn't appear
- She says people continually label each other, dividing the world
- She says what people do is far more significant than how they're labeled
Editor's note: Anousheh Ansari is the first female commercial space flight participant and the first Muslim woman to travel to space. The co-founder and former CEO of Telecom Technologies, she also co-founded and heads Prodea Systems, a global consumer services company connecting people and technology, as well as the Ahoora Foundation, a nonprofit organization that enables social entrepreneurship. She is also the author of "My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer," published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Who am I? That's the question that we ask ourselves from our early cognitive years to the day we die. The answer changes as we grow and live our lives, but we never stop asking the question.
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