Fantastic point. When my great grandparents got here, they started in little ethnic hubs but gave some of those up or shared them warmly (take what works for you) to live in the greater culture of the "melting pot." Now, our foods aren't supposed to touch. We have hit reverse as we pretend that the cultures who continually refuse to blend into the framework of the larger picture insist that what they have in their ethnic or other such superficially-based-microculture must be maintained perfectly in the superculture. I may be making up terms here but they are pictures of REAL phenomena. We now have people claiming that if you don't adopt every aspect of their subculture you are experiencing hatred, and ironically or even mutually exclusively, this same group insists anyone who fully embraces every aspect of their culture as they seem to desire is appropriating their culture. It's *almost as if* they don't have any desire to get along with people from different subcultures. Hmm...
Fantastic point. When my great grandparents got here, they started in little ethnic hubs but gave some of those up or shared them warmly (take what works for you) to live in the greater culture of the "melting pot." Now, our foods aren't supposed to touch. We have hit reverse as we pretend that the cultures who continually refuse to blend into the framework of the larger picture insist that what they have in their ethnic or other such superficially-based-microculture must be maintained perfectly in the superculture. I may be making up terms here but they are pictures of REAL phenomena. We now have people claiming that if you don't adopt every aspect of their subculture you are experiencing hatred, and ironically or even mutually exclusively, this same group insists anyone who fully embraces every aspect of their culture as they seem to desire is appropriating their culture. It's *almost as if* they don't have any desire to get along with people from different subcultures. Hmm...
Obviously, the result is that they are ripping up any hope for a cohesive, unified, strong society.
I love your illustration of demanding acceptance of someone's culture and then complaining about its' appropriation. So true.
Stellar!
Bugman hive colonies intensifies.
Outstanding!
Make me lol at the end