RDN's Lucifer (nerthos)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-16 14:08:15 UTC
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@scribus Tribes never did though, it's the reason people haven't stopped killing eachother over petty crap in thousands of years of human history. Humans tend to become dumber the more of them stand together, so the only real solution is to endorse a feeling of unity: "we are all [nation, species] first, and [race, religion, sexuality, party] second" Where I live we have a whole lot of nationalities and religions, but people in general identify by their belonging to the country, and as immigrants, first. They consider we're all immigrants (with the exception of immigrants but there's a deeply ingrained respect by the common individual towards the aborigin) and make "clubs" to celebrate the traditions of their place of origin but without considering themselves part of that small group before anything else. That has allowed the country to go on without ethnic conflicts for decades. We only started having social unrest a decade ago when a party decided to start with the whole (cont)
