Homo Sapiens
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Thank you.Almost all of the problem facing this world now emanated from greed and tribalism.These two reinforce each other.Religious extremism/chauvinism is one kind of tribalism, greedy to protect own group's special privilege even if that means hurting the others.If there is no religion to divide people than that tribalistic impulse will find some other excuse like race, nationality, sect,language etc to claim special rights for his group.These special rights include special territory which he claim exclusively for his group.People are very tribalistic by nature.It's origin lies in scarcity in primordial times when man had to fight ruthlessly to gain meager resource for his clan.This primordial impulse is very difficult to remove.Even many educated people are full in it.A much higher degree of enlightenment is needed in society to defeat it.One way to gain this enlightenment is exposure.Tribalism thrives in isolation.In an isolated condition, fear of unknown gain hold, fear let to hate.Hate let to atrocity.One of the reason European people became much more accepting the difference is to the fact that they travels a lot and comes in contact with different group of people frequently.It is now much more difficult to instigate the European union people to fight for religion, race or nationality.That's why international co-operation in very necessary to break the barriers.Once people meet freely with each other without any over imposing border, all these tribalistic impulse, race, religion, ethnicity, nationality will fall apart and people will truly become global citizen.One body,one spirit.Very insightful. You might have seen the last Rambo movie, which was about precisely this persecution of the Karen (in the movie). The Christian missionary theme was also present, if you have seen it.
In my gypsy wanderings, I worked for the Murugappas; the group started with the three brothers, AMM Murugappan, AMM Vellayan and AMM Arunachalam. Vellayan was killed in Burma in 1945; the Burmese have a long history of murdering Hindus and Muslims alike.
On a completely different note, I feel so much more at peace with myself now that Indian aid has started flowing into Bangladesh for the Rohingyas. I was there when the refugees came over in 71, and those pictures floated up in my nightmares the last few nights.
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