Imagining a World Without Culturalism, Racism, Tribalism Or Nationalism

Many people are just sick and tired of all the hatewhat is the first thing folks do when they get a
in the World and they want to do somethingchance?
about it. Indeed, the best thing to do is to startThey self-segregate on their own free accord,
with your own mirror and make yourself a betterthey all group together and divide up into Asian,
person, but let's say you have done all thatBlack, White, Hispanic communities, so forcing
already and you do not see a big change and allpeople together will not seem to work, many
you see is negative controversy on television andhave tried. When I was young I do remember
in public.the schools use to bus poor ethnic kids into
You think to yourself that maybe the Worldwealthy areas, and it made matters worse not
would be a better place if everyone was just abetter.
person, not a this, or that or the other thing; orIn fact, I can remember our high-school with
even a slanderous label, but is that really possiblesome 3600 kids; half Hispanic and the other half
you ask? Could we upgrade our societiesdivided between whites and blacks. It's amazing
throughout the world, asks Dmitri, a world classwe did so well and got along, but everyone
thinker.self-segregated like those shows on TV about
Interesting, and yes, maybe that would be anpeople in prisons.
upgrade. Still it would be nice if AmericansThere was not a lot of interaction, and therefore
themselves lead by example and do this, becausemaybe the melting pot needs a little philosophical
in this country everyone seems to be aadjustment? And in doing so we might lead by
hyphen-American, have you noticed, I mean thatexample, but getting rid of culturalism, tribalism,
is rather interesting. And in Los Angeles whereracism and nationalism? It's probably not possible
white, black, Hispanic and Asian is really no big dealin the present period.