Opus 2025-112: The Destruction of Diversity

As I went through some old notes I noticed a comment from 10 years ago about Ukraine as the Russians were flexing muscles.  What we see taking place in Eastern Europe is nothing new.  It also illustrates a concept that most Americans don’t think about much but our elites are trying to make central.  That is the concept of ethnic awareness.  Ukraine, like Lithuania and Estonia all have large minorities that still consider themselves Russians.  This is an issue.  They view their ethnic background as a major part of whom they are and their nation of residence a lesser allegiance.  Tribal identities are big dividers in the world and the cause of much of the violence.

Take a brief look at our world, even today.  The conflict in India is between the Hindu and Islamic cultures.  Go to China as they are working on exterminating the Uyghurs.  If you do a search on “Chinese persecution of...” you come up with Tibetans, Falun Gong, Buddhists, Christians and that doesn’t even touch on the historic differences across China.  If you remember the brutal killing going on in Ruanda, it was tribal, and as I write it is going on again.  In the middle east it isn’t just Jews against Palestinians but various Arab groups killing each other.  The Soviet Union was an uncomfortable union of many ethnic groups.

The Russians are one group that knows how to work this for their advantage.  They are tribes and the Soviet Union divided these nations along tribal lines.  It kept them from uniting.  Keep the tribes bickering and you can control them.  We have elitists in American that are trying to get us to divide and bicker over our ethinic identities.  They want to destroy the unity of the country.  They have pushed us a long way down the road of Balkanization.

America is an idea, not an ethnic identity.  At least it used to be an idea.  If we want to continue as a beacon of liberty and opportunity we need to get over the diversity thing.  The only way that diversity gives strength is if there is a stronger unity.  It is okay to have roots and cultural traditions that are based in another country as long as you realize they are the herbs and spices of whom you are as an American.  The basic ingredients must be consistent with the ideas in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

As the late George Putnam used to say, “Here’s to a better, stronger America.”

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