We don’t do “bloodlines” — we do lines of belief.

Catholics may wish to differ as regards the ownership of Rome.

Saudi Arabia rakes in $30 billion annually from the Haj — and all, of course, are welcome to return.

However, there are many Muslim-majority states worldwide, and so the issue is somewhat disingenuous as regards where a Muslim may feel at home or where a longer-lived tribesman whose cultural legacy far predates Islam and to whom conversion (even if sold as “reversion”) surviving some elements in Islam would seem to be a local issue this day.

As an ethno-religious presence, the Jews have a broad community and many arguments about being Jewish come up as much as they do in Islam.

My direction as regards ethnography, governance, and religion are involve just two or three themes: 1) let’s meet somewhere around monotheist humanism and agree to peace; 2) global cultural diversity may be as important to humanity as global biological diversity — let’s preserve one another by recognizing that others are “First People” and “Original People” and “Chosen People” too — the condition is not exclusive!; and 3) if we adopt as overarching values the pursuits of compassion, humility, inclusion, and integrity, our own humanity and the “humanity of humanity” will do just fine, and it may do just as much despite ourselves.

As-salamu alaykum!

Every child born is born with ready made ethnicity, family, language, and religion.

Not every child born, however, gets to enjoy them or keep them, and there are many reasons for that, but in that we lose a few of our approximately 7,000 living languages each month, the matter of cultural diversity and preservation should be taken as seriously as that of biological diversity.  We do not know what or whom may hold some secrets beneficial to the world’s overall survival, experience of life, and qualities of living.

We need us.

There is an old world obsessed with resource competition and deficit, but here one may argue, this given that food distribution, for example, presents economic, logistical, and political issues and proves as much or more of a challenge than producing raw food supply to cover hunger in the world, that the same are “problems in the head” and partly related to emotional deficit and social self-concept.

Heighten cooperation, integration, and trade across space, and one might find economic and resource development benefits concomitant.

Can we change the way we do business?

Well, we’re finding out.

Our despots gather and tie up wealth primarily to expend the same in the worst ways imaginable; our NGOs and assorted nonprofit service organizations stretch dollars practically into infinity, or so they may try on behalf of the welfare of their fellow humans.

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