differrent People

Once upon a time, before liberal democracy took over and told us all how to live, this world was happily divided without really knowing it. We all lived on the same shared planet and it was usually ok to be different in religion, creed or nationality. Indeed, your nationality often was the point. We often celebrated our nationality and religious differences in our own national ways under our own flag. As a youth I well recall truly enjoying visiting and being a guest in another country. To experience the customs and culture was the point of many a trip abroad. Not so now it seems. half the world is a no go area and one would not wish to be in half the countries I once knew as happy and stable. How things have changed. Tolerance replaced by bigotry and religion certainly has caused more than one war and no doubt will continue to as long as we get so upset over having the same God.

Once the point that folks of common bond liked to live together was the point. They put great store by their nationality and no amount of so called enlightened modern multi-cultural integration will stop people of common bond wishing to live together on their own land. The Olympics and many competitive areas of sport prove the attraction of nationalism even today. England V Germany will always BE England V Germany. I for one would hate to live in a unified Europe where its custom and culture played so little part and we only celebrated our union and bland nature.

History and the future will continue to show that folks really do get upset when you try to stop this most common of traits and try to separate people of a common bond. From the mess caused by the Europeans at the end of the first world war and their cutting across tribal and ethnic lines with the creation of the middle east as we know it today, to the Gulf war and its fall out from that proves one should never give a liberal a map and a pencil. And yet, we continue to meddle where we are not needed. How many would still be alive now if they had been left alone to sort their own problems when the Ottoman Empire collapsed for example.
How long did the Balkan wars last due to half arsed attempts at unifying instead of allowing them to sort out problems that had lain dormant for 70 years and thousands more come to that.

Half the strife in Europe currently being manifest is due to repressed ethnic problems caused at the end of world war two. How many would be happily alive now had Stalin not decided to re-configure the Soviet Union to his own ethnic tastes and crush all decent, which now readily boils to the surface. Why do you think Poland and Hungary will only take Christians from Syria? One messes with ethnicity and religion at ones peril. Yet we still persist to do so!

Once upon a time a simple polite phrase linked us all "live and let live" and another was "when in Rome do as the Romans do". I have lived on all the continents of this world and found that I never offended anyone by doing these things and wish for nothing but the same in my own country to be observed by guests visiting here. Should they wish to live here I have no problem with that as long as these simple rules are observed. But I have a very considerable problem with anyone wishing to visit or live here trying to change the nature, faith or customs of my country and there is the problem as far as Englishmen and women are concerned. We do not wish to be anything but English by nature and culture.  Respect for each other is a two way street and currently in many parts of this country that is becoming a rare thing. Politicians should bear this in mind.. I see nothing good coming of doing otherwise.. as history proves. .