Xenophobia?

[Vera]

They will run out of it, it is something soooo outdated and out of touch with reality that in the end it will disapear.
The role of "the others" will simply change with time and be fixed to someone else.




I am a multicultural kid with a multicultural background, and I live in a world so connected that people from all over the world can expirience the "others" themselves. So I am confident that xenophobia will simply fade away.

Did you know that right wingers in Swizerland campain with slogans warning about:

"Criminal French and German migrant workers"

It is simply the last resort of those who have nothing else left to argue with.

The thing is, we (or a lot of us) seem unwilling to let go of the tribal, us-or-them instinct. I guess it did use to make sense, when you didn't know the neighbouring tribe and hence, had a reason to fear them. But in this century it makes no sense whatsoever. Yet, a lot of people insist on clinging to something whose place is in the distant past.

But look who I'm telling this... of course people insist on clinging to things that belong in the past. Like religion.

The optimist in me kinda hopes that the day will come when the desire to divide ourselves into groups will die its long overdue death, but the cynic in me is saying "Yeah, right."

Am reminded of an old sci-fi series, Space: Above and Beyond, where they had no racism or gender discrimination, but they had "in-vitros", people conceived and born as in-vitros with the sole purpose of serving as expendable soldiers. And while human, those were considered subhuman and inferior to "real" people. So yeah, for the time being the idea of the "other" seems to be an integral part of (some of) [/i]us...