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First I must explain what I mean
my "xenophobia", which isn't a "hate of foreigners", but a
"dislike of things foreign", and the flip side of a
single
coin, on the other side of which is the "love of things
familiar" (famiarphilia?). You cannot have one without the
other, and both are very natural ways for humans to feel. I
certainly wouldn't want to be without either of them.
Just as "civilised" Christian
society didn't just seek to control human sexuality, but
demonised and suppressed it as something wicked, modern
western society now seeks to demonise and suppress (as
"xenophobia" or "racism") people's natural love of things
familiar (famiarphilia?) and the resulting resistance to
change, particularly the changing ethnic and
cultural composition of their society, that
is being driven by economic forces facilitated by the
universalist ideology and self-intestests of certain,
influential, but hardly representative, individuals and
groups (especially in politics and the media).
Much of the
behaviour condemned as "xenophobia" or "racism" is in fact an
expression of "famiarphilia" (the love of things
familiar), which is under serious and
increasing threat from mass immigration,
multi-racial/multi-cultural society and the "melting pot".
Ethnicity used to be an essential element
of being British (we were native Europeans, "white men").
Then the powers that be (which is a very interesting
question that needs researching) decided otherwise. All
opposition to, or even questioning of this decision is
condemned as "xenophobic" or "racist".
There is no doubt that human
sexuality and xenophobia (see definition above) need to be
controlled (in a humane and civilised fashion), but
demonising and suppressing them is not a good idea.
We need to study and understand
the political, social, psychological and economic forces
behind such demonisation and suppression.
It has a lot to do, I
suspect, with the maintenance and
exploitation of social, political and
economic power structures.
More at
http://www.spaceship-earth.org
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