Generational Dynamics World View

[David Horn]

(11-19-2019, 08:22 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(11-18-2019, 04:25 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: You're confusing nationalism with China's CCP religious cult.  Every country experiences nationalism and xenophobia in a generational
Crisis era, but the nationalism ends when the crisis war ends and the countries moves through the Recovery era into the Awakening era.  So
such periods of nationalism last at most a few decades.  And in fact, Japan and South Korea are fully integrated into the Western
international community, as members in good standing of the United Nations, WTO, and other international organizations.

But China is nothing of the sort.  Their racist view of themselves as the Master Race is not decades old.  It's millennia old.

The Japanese have at least as racist a view of their own superiority, which has been around for centuries at a minimum.  It hasn't prevented them from integrating with the west in terms of international organizations.

For that matter, the Europeans and European descended Americans have just as racist a view of their own superiority, with the assumption that western democracy is the one true way.

On the other hand, the CCP isn't even one century old.

So which one is the problem?  Racism, which everyone has, even if they rarely recognize it in themselves, or the CCP as a quasireligious cult?

It's a pretty well established theory in the social sciences that humans are wired to favor those who look like them.  This may be a leftover trait from our prehistoric past, since tribes came into existence for protection, being essentially extended families.  the ethnocentric part was just an outgrowth of that.  We can certainly overcome that trait, but it's easy to fall prey to the demons.