IS THE TYPICAL MODERN FAMILY REALLY MIXED RACE?

6 August 2023

These are photos of typical family units in America today, we are told. Is this true and if not what is going on here?

Maybe the Melting Pot worked well for America at the very beginning, but despite the 1960s Civil Rights Movement "awakening", multi ethnicity and mass immigration hasn't really worked out for ordinary people, it's led to a lot of conflict and as can be seen in the grievances of the Woke seemingly to a march towards civil war.

It would be interesting to know how significant are cultural differences, what is driving the current social conflict and why government and advertising keep bombarding us with these photos of multiethnic families.

ECONOMY AND CULTURE

People at work and in their finances all obey basic economic and business rules. When they leave work and return home however, culture is what decides behaviour. Culture is what makes social groups different - differences are not usually found in economic activity, though they do exist for example usury or ESG...

ETHNICITY AND RACE

Ethnicity is not so much about what you do, economically and culturally, but where you come from: geographically, genetically and historically. Some people call this "race".

FAMILY PROFILES

It's very obvious from this table of figures that whatever you call it - ethnicity, culture, race - it is very significant as, if I've understood that US census data correctly - it is saying that 98% of Americans live in ethnically homogeneous households.

BIOLOGY BRINGS US TOGETHER, CULTURE DRAWS US APART

This is an old wise Chinese saying. Why do peoples choose to live together within their groupings, but apart at least according to the census data? What are the characteristics that screen and separate?

CHARACTERISTICS

Some differences you can more easily see and use to define and screen a group: skin colour, language, family life styles, health parameters, diet, preferred leisure activities, dress styles.

Some are more subjective: belief systems and values incl religious; wellness practises (like ayuverdic and yoga in Hindu Bali, Shamans in S Africa, voodoo in Haiti...); art and expression; the history of a people as it is recorded.

ATTRACTION - REPULSION

According to the rules of natural selection, there's strength in diversity, we are programmed to mate with people who are different from us, but there's a point where these differences can change from being attractive to becoming quite scary as we get nearer a neighbouring species, by the often slight differences in genetic material. 

It's the objective signs that alert us and may attract us at first, to more frightening subjective cultural differences that reveal themselves later and may become controversial. We might get on fine with people from our own group, we might get on fine at work, but might not get on together with members from a different cultural group on a day-to-day basis - such as socially or in a family. 

And at the group level, ethnic or especially cultural groups themselves might have difficulty interacting with each other. This is how some people would explain race riots for example or supremacist attitudes.

So to turn to the question: why are they spinning us these photos of happy mixed-race families  when the census data paints an opposite picture? 

You could argue that despite trivial external signs like skin colour, these people in the photos are all from the same culture, they were born and grew up in the same culture, they went through the same socialising education system, they lived through the same major formative events of their youth  together like war, beatlemania or depression.

NATION STATE

If you believe in the nation state as the unit of counting, then you will see that when America was being formed, having wiped out the very different indigenous population, the founding fathers had to write a constitution and form a society from nothing and the Melting Pot worked well on such a green field site. 

But subsequently multi-ethnicity through immigration has turned out to be a growing source of conflict, with blacks who did not originally choose to emigrate watching recent immigrants overtake them. Conflict is heightened as hope is destroyed at a time of declining GDP growth, equality, real wages and opportunities. The civil rights movement of the 1960s was the awakening to these problems and the failure to address them resulted in the grievances of the Woke.

GLOBAL ELITE

If you are a member of the global elite, then you will see the world in class terms, in other words that economics and ownership of the means of production is the basic organising unit - a democratic market economy v. an autocratic state-run economy. You will want the same harmony and order found in the workplace to also reign in civic society. You will want order in place of chaos and anarchy. 

HOLLOWING OUT

As moderates leave what you might call the conflict zone, what is left is extremist groups battling each other for supremacy and caring little for the stability of the system.

If this is true, then in America, "leader of the free world", it is coming down to a straight fight between extremists on both sides: a global elite led by international Liberals and neo-conservatives, supported by the mainstream media and workplace HR departments: and a nationalist, populist, anti-establishment movement which some claim is supported at home by those who lost out in globalisation and abroad by foreign powers and enemies of America such as Russia's (now disproven) support for Trump. 

THE FOURTH TURNING

Seeing grievances and conflict mount, as a member of the elite top one percent, you'll use your leadership, your communication and marketing propaganda, to set a good example. You'll try to blend together all these cultures and ethnicities, to iron out the differences, resolve conflict and avoid your people resorting to street violence.

You'll welcome boat people or Mexicans because this will solve workplace economic and demographic problems and you'll be very confident that you can blend all these disparate peoples into one multi-ethnic culture at home as at work; just like you are very confident that you can win the war in Ukraine and maintain America's global hegemony! 

So the photos are more visionary than actual.

THE FUTURE

What is driving the current social conflict? Will things work out for this globalist elite and the American Order, or will events turn towards darkness, war and overthrow, and the emergence of a reformed or replaced Order?

We can watch history unfold before our eyes and can expect and plan for definitive outcomes by the early 2030s.