April 2nd, 2016
Odd how when peoples emigrate from their family homeland to
a new and different nation, that so often those same groups of people or their
offspring try to instill in the new land the same absurdities and idiosyncrasies
of the place from which they left.
Moreover, often those same absurdities are the very reason that caused
those peoples to leave the family homeland in the first place. Such absurdities can include forms of
governments, forms of economic policies, forms of religion, forms of law – up
to and including what constitutes a legal killing of another individual. To demand such change in a new and different
yet already lawfully established nation or any demands for changes to the way
of life in the new land seem to reflect an unwillingness or inability of the
new residents to assimilate and/or acculturate in the new homeland, for
whatever the reason. To demand sameness
in the new nation also appears to reflect an ignorance or maybe an intolerance
which need not be accepted lightly by the established inhabitants of that new
homeland – in my opinion and depending on what type of change is demanded, of
course. In other words, it seems
ridiculous for one to emigrate from a nation and then demand the new homeland
change to become the same as the typically dysfunctional nation from where one
left.
I trust the high-brow, intolerant, and holier-than-thou
types among us won’t read too much more into this blog entry than what is stated
and intended by these words. However,
realistically, if one is unable to acculturate or assimilate into a new land and
lifestyle and for anyone to demand everything to be as it was in one’s original
family homeland, then those unrealistic folks would probably be best advised to
stay where they are and work/fight to change their original homeland into what
they desire of that place – instead of relocating to a new place only to demand
that the new place become of the same dysfunctions as the place from where they
emigrated.
Adam Trotter
