At what cost to the individual.

 

 

All nations are like a tarnished mirror, they reflect the image of the people who look into them. If the source has afflictions and affectation then these will be reflected as the common denominator which describes the nation, warts and all. This reflection is taken as a national characteristic and builds around itself the cultural and religious variances which help develop a nation. A nation therefore is built not on a prescription of things you would desire but on the rough hewn susceptibility of chance and history. The identity of a people and their back story is what makes them so different even from people who live not many miles distant but have grown up isolated from each other by geography and a limited means of travel.

This myriad complex world of substance and difference, a world which has slowly matured over centuries has been the scene of an experiment the like of which has never been seen. For reasons of economics and profit and brought about by the marvel of  inter-connective communication via the internet, the hatching of a plan to divide the world into consumers and producers, not as in the old days of placing the production close to the consumer but by sourcing the production in the poorest parts of the world where people are expected to work a whole day for pennies and transporting the goods across the world to the wealthy, allowing  the privileged wealthy to be even more advantaged by buying goods, even more cheaply.    It's perverse in the extreme. 

In our defence of Globalisation and the need to transfer people from all corners of the globe to make the ease of the 'developed wealthy' a little more easy and a little more wealthy, we have encouraged the intermixing of ethnicity and culture and allowed the spin doctors to projected it as a positive. From a better cuisine to better the understanding of the different people and their priorities, priorities which different people bring when they settle in a new country and all is part of a learning curve we must undertake to understand not only the other person but ourselves.

The shrill condemnation of the voices who would question the scale of such social engineering is wholly based on the suggestion that if you question the process you are prejudiced, nay worse, a racist.
The people who are loudest in their condemnation, who fling the epithet that nation states and nationalities are a thing of the past, based on the absurd claim the because there is a genealogy that links us all to Africa, therefore our observance of national norms is tentative, "we all come from somewhere else" is drilled into our conscience making us afraid to question the premise, not for its genetic truth but because the passage of time, geography, climate and so many other factors makes the argument that we are all the same ridiculous, other than as an anatomically collective species.

To assert that the National Health Service couldn't work without the Filipino nurse or the Indian doctor, setting aside the criminal indifference to training the local people to do this work, it never seems to concern the collectivist to address the problems of the brain and skills drain it puts on the countries who lose  these workers to the West. This is skimmed over in the need to homogenise our "think/speak" in order to brainwash the people for the purposes of their containment.

All nations were formed out of practical need. The identity of the British is subject to wild variance between its constituent parts. The Irish, the Scots the Welsh and the English are so different that it is only seen as a composite whole by glossing over the many deep differences and the pragmatic approach to political convenience which political history has connived to make this island race of four nations fairly comfortable living with each other. Imagine the potential turbulence when nations from every calling descend on this tiny patch of ground and claim their inheritance. 

Once again, political convenience will have to be applied but at what cost to, dare I say it, the indigenous individual.