At least thirty years ago, an old term, newly-named, surfaced called “multiculturalism,” a hybrid of globalization and egalitarian brow-beating. This modern egalitarian thrust has largely been to trivialize the differences between ethnic groups, race, religion, and so forth. All of these things are the signature of a community. In other words, identification of the individual rooted with others of similar traits and a common history is now said to be morally flawed and, by its very nature, bigoted. Phooey!
Booker T. Washington once stated, “In all things purely social, we can be as separate as fingers yet one as the hand in all. Different peoples pulling the same direction and looking out for one another is anything but bigotry.” The intellectuals who have been feeding us this unsound argument from publicly-funded universities for decades have done so much to hurt, if not kill, the individual community, making them barely recognizable today. Is this progress?
The breakdown of small and large communities has contributed, according to many sociologists, to a larger divorce rate, a greater birth rate to single parents, criminal behavior and disassociation of young people, leading to other forms of socially-deviant behavior.
Education has suffered due to this thinking as well. Under the guise of promoting “civil rights,” many students feel reluctant to associate with those with whom they formerly shared a definite sense of community. Othesr are overly sensitized to bitterly resent any preference for anyone different than themselves. We all walk on eggshells because someone convinced us that any adherence to what in the old days was defined as a community, is somehow bigotry. It is false.
Imagine a world where nowhere was anywhere in particular. Do not allow yourself to be sucked into this lie. Normal human beings communicate quite well with one another if left alone. This is all a creation of overactive imaginations from those living in the vacuum of social engineering.
I’m Loren Christensen with a Word from the Vine.
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