JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON LIVING IN THE CULTURAL BORDERLANDS OF THE MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY! PART 4.

'Like the great fertility and awe-inspiring presence which is to be found where two great rivers converge.  
So,  also, is the crucial importance of 'borderlands' where people of different ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds are contiguous to one another. 

What happens here, can have great influence on, and implications for the relationships between these citizens, in the wider society.'

As the hope of a new life, free of the privations of economic blight attracts hundreds of thousands, millions of people from the desperate regions of the world to Europe and the United States of America. 

To be met by the fear and rejection of many of the latter's people.  It is important to be mindful of the fact that people are resources with which and who are capable of building a stronger and more inclusive nation. If they are prudently assimilated and led into doing so.

Moving into the heartlands and setting up shop, as it were, and attracting the interests of the host communities. 

There is also the role which is played by both the interested and the curious members of host communities. 

Those who opt to work and or live amongst the newcomers, and become enablers of 'cultural cross-fertilisation.

Probably the biggest challenge confronting the people living in the 'cultual borderlands, in any country in the 21st Century. 

Is that of these areas continuing to be little more than 'demographic reservations' for 'containing those living there. 

The risk of them becoming 'little.....' denoting the countries of origin of the people living their. 

The risk of the 'flight' of the previous inhabitants from the host country, into heartlands of the host country. 

Or, at least, those who have the economic and financial wherewithal to move and distance themselves from the newcomers.

Which, as much of the global evidence suggests, can cause the remaining less enfranchised members of the 'host community.' 

To become more resentful of the 'newcomers', with whom they have to continue to live. 

In what is now evolving into a transformed, and, to the host community, an unfamiliar demographical reality.  

To be continued!