(January 28, 2014 at 7:30 pm)Cato Wrote: It sounds like many of you are trying to put the genie back in the bottle. The ability to get anywhere in the world in a day's travel and instant global communication has shattered the lamp. The sad part is that instead of embracing and sharing cultural differences, some want to glue the lamp back together in order to exclude others and keep cherished traditional bigotry.
Nationalism breaks down to nothing more than a marketing term for tribalism; my tribe is good, others are bad. If your approximation of utopia is the Balkanization of the entire planet, do your best. I and the majority of other humans will feverishly oppose you. In my travels and experience I have concluded that all humans share the exact same basic needs and desires. We have been taught to achieve these in various ways due to our traditional relative isolation, but we are now able to learn from one another and integrate culturally to the extent we offer mutual respect and tolerance.
I'm saddened knowing some want to crawl back in and rabidly protect their cave; which, is only their's by the accident of birth. Dining at the smorgasbord of life is much better for all.
My tribe is good, others are bad? Where did you come up with that. It is more like my tribe is my tribe, your tribe is your tribe. Would you like to trade goods? Would you like to share knowledge? You may come into my tribe as a guest but you will not share the same rights and privileges as the people of my tribe, but you are welcome to live among us if you follow our values, language, culture and so forth. If you commit a crime you will be imprisoned and deported..
