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I remember a German friend once said to me,
sehr traurig, "It will be a diminished world, and very sad, when there are no blond people left."
I am afraid I replied, very flippantly, "Well, there's always hair dye!" (Really, I was very prescient, since this happened many years ago, when almost no one dyed their hair.)
Perhaps I was rather mean, but what he said seemed so silly, since, a hundred years from now, the human race will be well on its way to being cyborgs, like Schwartzeneger in "Terminator", and all our present racial concerns will be laughably archaic and antique.
However, while I think racial concerns are, at best, matters of humour, I am much more concerned about cultural leveling. I do think the world will be much impoverished if the various cultures of world disappear -- especially if they are replaced by a degraded, commercialized, lowest common-denominator global prole-culture.
However, I do not think that is our fate -- at least, not completely.
A hundred years from now, I think Germany will cover the globe -- and India will cover the globe, and China will cover the globe. National cultures will explode and be everywhere. Some, no doubt, will be ghettoes, but most, I think, will we various kinds of "communities" --
Gemeinschäfte -- all side-by-side, mixing
and staying apart!
The best idea the Jews ever came up with (certainly not their religion -- ugh!) was the
Diaspora -- the ability to have a widely dispersed community (which they have stupidly abandoned, whoring after the outmoded, foreign god of nationalism).
If you can imagine every nation a Diaspora, I think you will have some idea of the future -- and if you value your national culture, you won't try to close your borders, in some doomed effort to defend the Alamo, but you will work and plan to make Universal Diasporas a realizable goal.
You can, to some degree, already see the future in some places. Consider Canada. Canada has been remarkably, even amazingly, successful in accomodating many cultures and nations, in a kaleidoscope of combinations, all getting along pretty well with each other, all learning from each other, but not abandoning the essence of their cultural heritage.
One incident sums it up for me. Once, at the Vancouver Airport, a Chinese lady friend of mine noticed a very Australian lady on the telephone, visibly upset. It turned out that she had just arrived on a flight, going to visit a cousin in Texas whom she had never met. She was on the phone to the cousin, and they could not understand each other's English!! My Chinese lady friend saved the day by translating back-and-forth for them!! · ·

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