The song, “You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught” was originally featured in the Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1949 Broadway musical and 1958 film South Pacific.
As the song expresses, no one is born hating other people based on their differences. The differences in the way they look, the language they speak, the creed they profess— these are often harmless until a person is raised and “taught” to fear them.
The Asia Society Hong Kong Center, enabled with special permission by The Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization and supported by David Henry Hwang, Ted Chapin, Ken Smith, Joanna Lee, invited a bunch of us to sing a version (with updated lyrics for this purpose) to sing about unity, when there seems to be so much that divides.
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https://youtu.be/uPmt9BS30No
