The Team Shirt

One is always struck by the 'influence' of the tribe into which you were born. 
If you are a white person born in the South of England it's probable that you will have a very different reference point on which to form your views than someone born in the North.
If you were a black person growing up in Birmingham or Tower Hamlets your concerns about the fairness of other parts of society towards your group will be prejudiced by your experience.
If you are a Catholic or a Protestant in Northern Ireland your memory will be scarred by recent history.
If you are a Muslim the foundations of your faith will direct your actions and thoughts and, irrespective of anything else, you will put what you understand as being a good Muslim, first and foremost.
The groups go on and on. The Sikhs. The Hindu's, the Buddhist. People from China, people from Syria all have very different images of what is right and wrong and given as I tried to argue in a recent blog, the question of what is right and what is wrong is littered with prejudice and cultural opportunism.
Given that "they" are in the process of inflicting a global hegemony on the world and need to open boarders and consolidate intermixing of whole cultures and populations, as part of a global consumer market, our differences are going to be highlighted and the strains within any society magnified.
It seems to me that fitting round pegs into square holes for the benefit of Wall Street is fraught with danger. People are pliable to an extent but dissatisfaction and confusion as to your traditions and the respect these traditions have in the larger picture, produces unnecessary tension.
Nations and cultures are not a plaything which Goldman Sacs can manipulate like a 'derivative' offering to the market, reflecting one thing but of no substance. 
People need more to hold on to.  Like the importance of the team shirt in the rugby tournament which identifies the direction of travel. Imagine a game played by individuals each wearing a different shirt, each player unable to recognise who is playing for who. 
Multiculturalism is based on trade and profit. Forget the altruistic  claims, its an experiment the like of which has never been tried on this scale before in which the gamble  is, that the natural harmony people have for each other, (until threatened) will tide the society over until the profit is secured and the plunder, safe in a Swiss account.