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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