The most important thing which can unite a people?

However it seems in some countries people who speak the same language have alse the same race, religion, culture and etc but there are also people who have the same language, like Kurds, who live in some different countires, about the race and religion, there are certainly larger number of similar peoples.

Several people have talked about Globalism, but it is a fact that in a competition, we prefer that we ourselves win, then someone from our family, city, country or even continent.

Well Athena, I would suggest that "Nationalism" would also win in a landslide if it was imported into the discussion at the correct point?

Regards,

Mosquito, I seriously appreciate what you said, and OH YES, IT WAS THE LATIN CULTURE UNITING EUROPE.  LITERANCY IN GREEK AND ROMAN CLASSICS WERE THE FOUNDATION OF CULTURE IN EUROPE AND THE USA.   That was exactly what public education in the US was all about.  Around the 1800's the US was being flooded with immigrants, and the easy land was gone.  Immigrants got trapped in industrial city ghettos, or they moved west, beyond the mountains and into a huge valley, then over another mountain range into California, Oregon and Washington on the west coast.  Those who moved west weren't of much concern, but those in the cities were acting badly as immigrants struggling to survive do when the struggle is too bad.  I think our history might give us a different view of Muslim immigrants who are a problem to their new communities.  IMMIGRANTS ARE A PROBLEM BECAUSE THE GOOD LAND IS TAKEN, THE GOOD JOBS ARE TAKEN, AND THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE CULTURE AND LANGUAGE THAT WELL, SO THEY DO NOT FIT IN AND DO HAVE A HARDER TIME COMPETING.   NOT TO MENTION THE TOTALLY DIFFERENT REALITY OF CONSTANT COMPETION COMPARED TO BELONGING AND EVERYONE CARING ABOUT YOU.  THE US HAS ALMOST TOTALLY DESTROYED THE SENSE OF COMMUNITY PEOPLE USED TO HAVE.  TODAY PEOPLE HAVE NO MEMORY OF A SENSE OF COMMUNITY AND BELONGING. AND THIS IS WHEN THEY JOIN GANGS AND SUBCULTURE GROUPS.  WE ARE SELF DESTRUCTING, AND CYRUS'S QUESTION IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTIONS OF THE DAY. 

Edited by Athena - 30-Nov-2010 at 12:49

Best friends may get angry with each other, but they do not normally kll each other.   It is hard for me to imagine well informed people making war on each other.  I think wars depends to a high degree on ignorance.  We have the technology today to radically change that.