We are only human

  

The world seems to be made up of two different types of people.

The one sees the world through their 'own' needs, the other, through 'other' people's needs.
It's as simple as that.
The priorities of the first are clear they identify with their own specific issues. They understand the world through their own domain. They recognise other people through the commonality (if there is any) of their own ideas. They recognise the substance of their own plight through the plight of people who share their background.
Sixty years ago this concept was common across the nation, in fact it was common across all nations of the world. It was the bedrock of society, it represented a uniform platform, a measuring stick to guide you. Depending on which neighbourhood you lived in, people were largely the same.The sameness and the ignorance of much outside your neighbourhood created a unity amongst those you knew and lived alongside
The second person existed but as a tiny minority. They were on the fringes of society and were represented for instance by Beatrice's and Sidney Webb and the Fabian Society. These people were resolute in searching for answers in areas where a mismatch occurred, they were consumed with the need to "put right the wrongs" as they saw them. They were humanitarians.
Ignorance is both a bane and a bliss, too much knowledge disturbs that equilibrium we yearn for and of course today we have information overload, an industry of soothsayers, apologists, appeasement experts, people who exploit every wart, every attempt at being an individual, of having views which are nonconformist.
Not conforming is a heresy. Only if we pull together in the one direction, a direction we are told is the correct for all, as a collective, one they manipulate into a single unitary theoretically homogeneous unit.
Religion talks of a single god who loves us all and yet the institution of religious faith, the churches here on earth are at loggerheads with each other.
Humanitarians speak of the unity inherent in mankind's love and respect for each individual towards the other but whilst a lordly aim, it fails in reality so many tests.
From a beggar thy neighbour approach of Donald Trump, to the seemingly genuine concern of Obama towards the myriad hues of a complex world.
With the swirling nature of the African diaspora, like the dust from a Dervish dance obliterating the perspective, the reasons to be magnanimous are drowned by the scale.
We can't take it in, the myriad customs and affiliations which are totally foreign to us but have to be assimilated and more than just assimilated, given preference for a political end which is not our own.
Has the multicultural idea seen its day, overtaken by events which distorted any chance of a natural evolution. Was the idea bonkers to start with. Simply a dream or a guide towards behaviour such as "love they neighbour as yourself". It was never meant literally but simply to pose the paradox of getting along for the common good. But when the common good begins to feel threatening for the bulk of people then one has to recognise, we are only human !!