JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON LIVING IN THE CULTURAL BORDERLANDS OF THE MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY! THE END......
'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.
The place where different ethnicities and cultures most prominently interface and converge?
Well, there are many significant aspects to the ' cultural borderlands.'
Probably one of the most important of these, is their use as a measurement of the health of the relationships, between the different ethnic groups and the extent of the cultural integration and stability of the nation.
Governments ignore paying special attention to and promoting healthy cultural and social assimilation among the citizens of the 'cultural borderlands' at the nation's peril.
The 'cultural borderlands' can be used as areas to construct and promote models of the integrated societies which are essential, if humans are to become more cooperative and peaceful, and less divisive and destructive.
It is the places where the mosaic tapestry of the demographically diverse societies, which are to be the inheritance of future generations should and must be forged.
This is why the 'cultural borderlands' should never ever be neglected and simply be left to their own devices.
They require careful social, political, cultural and, yes, religious planning, engineering and management.
So as to ensure that the evolve and develop into a holistic social and economic body, which does not fight against itself and become a 'failed' neighbourhood, town, city or county.
Probably one of the most important of these, is their use as a measurement of the health of the relationships, between the different ethnic groups and the extent of the cultural integration and stability of the nation.
Governments ignore paying special attention to and promoting healthy cultural and social assimilation among the citizens of the 'cultural borderlands' at the nation's peril.
The 'cultural borderlands' can be used as areas to construct and promote models of the integrated societies which are essential, if humans are to become more cooperative and peaceful, and less divisive and destructive.
It is the places where the mosaic tapestry of the demographically diverse societies, which are to be the inheritance of future generations should and must be forged.
This is why the 'cultural borderlands' should never ever be neglected and simply be left to their own devices.
They require careful social, political, cultural and, yes, religious planning, engineering and management.
So as to ensure that the evolve and develop into a holistic social and economic body, which does not fight against itself and become a 'failed' neighbourhood, town, city or county.
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