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Originally Posted by Oerets
It is not only our country or at this time fearing or anger towards immigrants is present. Must be a root issue with the human condition, that fear of another tribe or competition. Even fearing the unknown.
Used by a group of power hungry individuals wanting to pit and distract the masses to keep manipulating for their gain.
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No argument here. I will only say that xenophobia is a problem everywhere. "Outlandish" is the word. The residents of third world countries don't like outlanders/outsiders any more than the white christian first world countries like outlanders. Of course there aren't any crowds desperately trying to get entry into Somalia. As Willie Sutton remarked when asked why he robs banks..."Because that's where the money is." The first world is where the money is. And make no mistake, Brexit was/is all about English xenophobia. Any argument you hear out of the English about anything else being the reason for the Brexit...is major bullshit...it's pure racist xenophobia.
The problem is...humanity is incorrectly named. Mankind is the missing link between apes and humans. And it's probably an insult to the apes, who are considerably more noble creatures than us. Railroad robber barron Jay Gould described human nature with a nauseatingly accurate simplicity when he said, "I can hire half the working class to kill the other half."
Globally in 2020, 149 million children under 5 were estimated to be stunted (too short for age), 45 million were estimated to be wasted (too thin for height), and 38.9 million were overweight or obese. Around 45% of deaths among children under 5 years of age are linked to undernutrition. Around 2 billion people around the world do not have access to clean and safe drinking water. Are the one's like us who supposedly care enough doing enough with our yearly tax deductible donation to UNICEF? Yeah...yeah...despotism and tyranny, obviously a major feature of human nature, are not going away.
Thus...thousands of refugees at the border.
But then...there's Carl Sagan...
“We have held the peculiar notion that a person or society that is a little different from us, whoever we are, is somehow strange or bizarre, to be distrusted or loathed. Think of the negative connotations of words like alien or outlandish. And yet the monuments and cultures of each of our civilizations merely represent different ways of being human. An extraterrestrial visitor, looking at the differences among human beings and their societies, would find those differences trivial compared to the similarities. The Cosmos may be densely populated with intelligent beings. But the Darwinian lesson is clear: There will be no humans elsewhere. Only here. Only on this small planet. We are a rare as well as an endangered species. Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Carl really tried to get us to understand that we need to behave more appropriately, but human's aren't particularly good at listening to anybody unless they think there's something tangible and directly in it for them.