Monday, December 10, 2018

Can we come to terms with ethnocentrism?


The divide I see, which of course is rarely talked about because it's politically incorrect, is between groups who are ethnocentric for their own group but don't allow the same ethnocentrism for other groups, and those who are ethnocentric for their own group but allow the same ethnocentrism for other groups. The last mentioned ethnopluralistic group is far smaller in number than the ethno-supremacist group.

Much of this is unconscious in people because they have been thoroughly indoctrinated in the evils of being ethnocentric, even though ethnocentrism is as deeply rooted genetically in human nature as being kin-centered---it was central to our successful survival and so it was carried on genetically in human nature. It seems to me that people have different abilities to be objective about ethnocentrism, which itself may be due to genetic traits.

So there we have the underground or subterranean dynamic of the biological origin of much of our social behavior, which needs to be spoken about, because if we don't come to terms with our inherent ethnocentrism we will have constant civil disturbances and even civil war.

That is why I promote an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, which can be adapted from the constitutional decentralizing separation of powers and states. We tend to go that way anyway as empires break down, most recently seen in the Soviet Union in 1991 which returned to its earlier ethnostates, although they now seem to want their empire back.

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