Some seventy years ago their was a great war.  It was fought everywhere in the world but the most dramatic and pivotal moment of that long ago war was when Russia turned the tide on the German advance.

   Looking back, on the effect it had in the world and peeling away all the propaganda you can see the ideological heart of the conflict.  The people who said that men where not equal met the people who said they were equal.

   Now reason tells us that men are not equal.  Some are smarter, stronger, quicker or attractive then others.  It's a hard and bitter pill to swallow but it is the obvious truth.

   But in that battle the pretty lie of equality won over the truth of inequality.

   Everyone born after that victory has in turn lived in a world colored by this change.  Many countries have repealed eugenics laws, desegregated and granted equal rights to all their citizenry in the decades that have followed.  Social clubs celebrating things like racial purity and superiority are no longer common and in general are unacceptable.

   We owe those equal rights to Russia just as we owe the depth of those rights to America.

   But what of the current war?  The so called war on terror?

   For Israel it has been written permission to clamp down harder on the Palestinians provoking more suicide bombers and rocket attacks provoking more retaliations in turn edging both groups closer to the genocide no one even suspects the Israeli's might be capable of.

   For the USA it has been the right to install a more friendly government in a major oil producing nation.

   But that's all off the topic isn't it?  Isn't the sparking of the incident the American's unwavering support of Israel and the presence of troops in Saudi Arabia after the Iraq war?

   But the Saudi's are best buds with the US aren't they?  There are some cultural differences but the US loves oil and the Saudi's love money so it's a match made in heaven right?

   But the US thinks of Israel as their closest allies in the Middle East because of their similar values and culture..

   Because Saudi Arabia wants to be the US's best friend in the Middle East instead of Israel.  Because drawing a line from Pakistan to Afghanistan to Iran to Iraq to Saudi Arabia you define the Muslim world and show borders that perhaps shouldn't exist.  By failing to trust the Saudi's as much as they trust Israel they slight the whole culture.

   So it's not a Holy War but a spat as spiteful and violent as a confrontation with your black mistress when she realizes the reason you love your psychotic wife instead is because she's white.

   Is this a war about equality in foreign relations?  Is that the next big change?  Cultural differences between nations might stop being a factor in trade and diplomacy?

   It could be, but we'll have to wait a few decades to know for sure.

(PS, Before you reply, No, it doesn't matter what a suicide bomber thinks.)

Personally....this will sound horrible....I don't want cultural acceptance. The more people that come into this country the less of our people there will be and then where will we be? We will have to adjust as much as they will and it will destroy us all.

Nice essay Dragom!

Kimberley (02:34am Tue, Feb  9, 2010)

Personally....this will sound horrible....I don't want cultural acceptance. The more people that come into this country the less of our people there will be and then where will we be? We will have to adjust as much as they will and it will destroy us all.

Actually having lived in Australia, a country suffering this right now, I have to agree. The more immigration that goes on the worse off the country is. There's racial tensions and blurred cultural lines. Everyone has to adjust and assimilate, and if everyone's doing it (not just one group) you're going to meet some way in between the two extremes.....therefore watering them both down.


Not to mention the fact that cultures are not preserved and they, along with their languages and accents, are destroyed. It might be a good thing but tell me that when the whole world is just one big block of land and puddles of water; no culture to speak of. Nothing unique. Nothing but the land to define a country. That's a good way to equalize people, and kill patriotism. Then again what is there to be patriotic about? The land? That's what the wars will be over. Stupid shit like grass and stuff.

I live in Canada, we import people, a lot of people.  Without immigration we would experience negative annual population growth.

Now in every town in Canada there is a Chinese restaurant.  You can over hear the waitresses gossip and deliver your order to the kitchen using Mandarin. 

Of course the Chinese food changes as you travel away from the coast.  Takoyaki is made with either pork or chicken instead of octopus as a regional consent for example.

And every Doctor not found in an emergency room is imported.  Most often they are from India.

I laugh whenever a teenage girl complains that she was called a whore the first time she asked a doctor for a prescription for birth control pills.

Assimilation doesn't have to a fast process and take as long as you like.

PS: don't send your teen daughter to an East Indian doctor

Dragom (03:24am Tue, Feb  9, 2010)

I live in Canada, we import people, a lot of people.  Without immigration we would experience negative annual population growth.

Try living in a fairly packed town which suddenly gets 20,000 immigrating people then come back and tell me it's a good thing.

There are other solutions!

Kimberley (02:51pm Tue, Feb  9, 2010)

There are other solutions!

+1 to your whole post, I had the same thing but 30,000 of them.


Anyway, in Aus, we offered a sum of money for everyone who had a baby in a certain period of time. I think it was around 8k. I might be getting mixed up but I know there's still a baby bonus of 3k. I think that's only there for under 21's though..


Either way baby bonus's like that work!

This is very interesting and a good read from start to finish. Often when people write essays they tend to ramble on and on and lose the facts which you have stuck with here.