Alfred | Browns Bay
“Well, to be a man is to look after your family. It’s a hard question, you know.
I think to be a man it depends where you are and what the situation is. If you are a man in a family, you look after your family. If you have a parent, you look after your parent. If you have work, you look after your work and do the best you can. What is a man? It’s just a human being in society, I guess, everybody does his part. If you’re brought up to be good, you be good. If you’re brought up to be bad, and you see violence around you, and you’ve been taught that way, you become that way, I guess.
It doesn’t apply to everyone, but it’s most likely to be that way. So, whatever the understanding of man in the 1960s is, man in those ages is different than man now. I think it’s more civilised, more understanding. You know, this is my understanding. Even I respect it; I do respect it. You know? I respect people as they are, and whatever they think of, and whatever they feel like doing. Everybody’s free in this country. It’s a religious thing. I’m Christian, and I’m proud to be that.
I have a couple of sons in Asia. Every day they have problems and you have to solve them, and you have to please everyone. Obviously, sometimes you don’t feel that you can solve a problem, but it’s a part of your life. You try to be political, be understandable, listen to the person in front of you, and try to solve the problem as much as you can. Every conversation where there is a problem, there is a solution I think.
Violence won’t solve the problem. Actually, it creates the problem. If you want to solve a problem, you have to first of all listen to the person in front of you and then you understand what the problem is, and you try to solve it, you know, but to be violent makes a problem. It won’t solve a problem; it just creates another problem.”
