Tuesday 1 January 2019

We are all in for a bumpy ride



Subject: We are all in for a bumpy ride.

I'm reading a book called "Whiteshift" which discusses the diminution of white people in favour of non white people across the globe specifically in places which, in recent history were largely populated by white people they include Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. The argument about North American Indian people and the Polynesian people of New Zealand, even the small non integrated Aboriginal people of Australia lie outside the phenomenon of the decline from majority status of white skinned people in favour of non white.
Does this matter. In essence no, the argument that people are just people, we all bleed in the same way we all procreate in the same way we love and hate in the same way why then is skin colour any reason to differentiate. 
Tribal ticks such as accents and specific customs assimilated into some sort of historical hegemony play a part in the recognition process and provide a useful short cut in the interaction between people. There is a suspicion that without these visible short cuts it's harder to establish rapport since subliminally we are struggling with a tribal recognition problem. 
The thrust of mainstream liberalism has been to play down the these visible differences in favour of the multi cultural/multi ethnicity angle which not only denies any difference but brands those who do not confirm to their view. As we hammer out any sense of whiteness in the panel beating workshop of political correctness we should ask, just before the final paint spray irradiates us forever if the boot were on the other foot, would the multitudes from Africa and Asia be as lenient with their latent hegemony.
In my own observance, black movements cherish their heritage even more than the whites do. Their music is full of folk law tracing their ethnicity and cultural heritage and leaves little space for others in the historical pageant of their past achievement. Given that religion curiously is tied to region and that the regions recognise ethnicity above much else in the Middle East and Asia then the happy coincidence of a relatively benign, if overly materialistic tribal cohort, disappearing from power to be replaced by a chaotic, mis-mash of competing religiosity, well we are in for a bumpy ride.

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