I think that, in a past era in which humans were largely immobile and thus everyone who shared in certain situations looked the same way and was from the same p

I think that, in a past era in which humans were largely immobile and thus everyone who shared in certain situations looked the same way and was from the same place, this was absolutely true. It’s interesting to ponder what will happen in the future as we have both increased mobility and reduced birth rates, which seems to lead to people who espouse certain values concentrating in certain places. You can’t have “tolerance” of the same values the Miami Is The New SV / Crypto Puerto Rico types have, and allow them to take over a society, and still end up with a place like Tokyo. We are living in the weird messy middle of a world learning to figure out the fact that “race” is, when used within members of humanity, a problematic concept. Differences in values will remain, and should remain, because nobody has the right to force me to live in their Ayn Rand fantasy and I have no right to assert my We’re In It Together thoughts on the Miami tech types. Maybe that’s a “culture war,” I don’t know — whatever it is, it’s not going away as long as humans have the ability to think freely.