Differences

I have been watching a program on Al Jazeera about the history of the White Australia Policy. The leaders in Australia in the post war period of the late 40s, 50s and 60s Arthur Calwell and Bob Menzies,both Prime Ministers who were worried about the future make up of Australian Society, tried to ensure the Anglophile content was retained.
It brings into perspective the question of who we feel we are. 

As we look in the mirror each morning do we see a white face or a black face do we see Asian eyes or the high cheekbones of a person born in Bolivia. 
On the radio and in the media we are constantly asked to be something else for the sake of the the constituency we call the Global constituency. A Multi cultural concept that helps the mix which the Global economy has produced when it demolished boarders to fit an economic desire to have free movement of labour to fulfil an economic priority.
If I have a black face the person behind the face is as cogent as I about who they think they are, they are far more than their skin colour, their background and the environment they grew up in is far more important as an element which form their character. Their colour like mine only becomes relevant if an outside influence makes it important, either for good or bad and we all have memories when the colour of ones skin was a disadvantage. In the race riots in Newark in the 60s my skin was the topic of, shall we say interest.
People in this era would say it was prejudice which made me the focus of comment but I think it was something deeper. Tribal, and defensive of our perceived sense of belonging to a particular segment of humanity, we colonise our thoughts around the identity of who we recognise as being the same or similar. Where we were born and necessarily the structure, not only our evolutionary make up, (including colour), but also the myriad points of view flowing from a specific background of experience.
The attempt to minimise our differences by the people behind the Global experiment has created both good and bad.
In making us realise our commonality such as wishing to have the same safeguards within the society we choose to live, is common and must be respected but the attempt to homogenise our thoughts and exclude the powerful differences and strengths which belong to our tribe would suggest we are all the same, and this is fundamentally bad !!!