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Fecundity posted...

This seems like an awfully selfish and transactional take on how society works in a world where the greatest moments of social change have come about from "in groups" showing brotherhood and solidarity with "out groups."

And welcome to the real world. Where groups either prosper or weaken - then attempt to adjust and recover.

Society doesn't care about your feelings when it's looking at the big picture. As intercontinental travel has become "easier" - possible, but not readily available to all - some nations have grown more racially/ethnically mixed and at a much faster rate than through trade or pre-industrialisation travel. Before those differences would lead to war.

Now, because the focus is on maintaining global markets there is a desperate and awkward attempt at getting different groups to get along with each other in proximity with one another despite the differences that resulted in conflict then and now.

You might not like ingroup preference in its current guise - along racial/religious grounds but it is what built those nations. Trying to switch how a group defines itself along ideological grounds is going to either require the ideology to be fucking amazing, so much so that people in a position of power will give up their status or you're going to need to hit a social reset switch and build it all again.
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