I was in south America once and I was in a hotel lobby and this kid was sitting by a chess board. We didn’t speak each other’s languages at all but we played an entire game together. Kid with the chess board if you somehow see this know that you are immortalized in the fact that I share this story every time I coach chess club to new kids

Awww. Look at the little dudes just vibing! I love it. I [US citizen, 21 at the time] watched The God's Must Be Crazy for the first time on my laptop during an international flight; it had enough visual comedy that the Russian lady next to me also laughed along at some scenes even though I was wearing headphones. Some art transcends language, and I love that.

Like I told my ex girlfriend who kept saying how much she loved me. Words are just specific sounds that come out of your mouth. Actions will always speak louder!!

Kids don't see differences. Kids see people. My mom STILL tells her friends about how I was the only one who stood up for the new janitor in 5th grade. 10y/o kids, by that age, some unkind lessons had been learned. It didn't help that the new guy had replaced a beloved janitor. Also, predominantly white elementary school, black janitor, so you can guess what was being said. Janitor comes to the 5th grade classroom to report the boys and then mentions me. My teacher was shocked - he thought I'd been doing the same as the boys - janitor stops him and says 'no, SHE told them to stop.' Teacher sent a letter home to mom on how proud of me he was and that mom was raising a wonderful young lady.

Of course they speak the same language----KID.

Take down the parents' details if possible, when you kid is grown they might want to track their 'best bud' of 5 mins down

And why not.

This is my 9yo grandson; he can make a new friend anywhere!!

Simply adorable.

The wonderful innocence of children. They don't see colour, creed or religion, only someone they can be friends with. Shame the rest of the species of man cannot follow their lead.

Now we just need our political leaders to do this.

Kids are not born to hate or be racist. It is something they learn when growing up.

They both start singing "Baby Shark" for hours and hours and hours...

I remember meeting a young boy in France, at disney. I might have only been 6 or 7 years old, and didn't speak any french besides "bonjour" "merci", "sil vous plait" and "oui oui" , but this kid insisted he had his photo taken with me and my sister, and played with us in the playground at the hotel. I wonder where he is today. x3 (I could never actually confirm if he was indeed French, actually. but somehow language didn't entirely matter)

This is what I absolutely love about kids.

Hopefully nothing like the picture, because that's just screen hypno.

Awww that’s so cute

even when i was a kid i rarely made friends and it always ended up with me losing contact for one reason or the other, but when i was at some kids event i would easily make a few one-day friends.. it was like i flipped a switch and became extremely extroverted. idk why that was tbh

As we all should.

aww