Our myths and religions, too, are syncretic - sharing, repeating and adapting a large variety of elements to suit their needs. Look at your average Western nation: its numbers Arabic, its alphabet Latin, its religion Levantine, its philosophy Greek… need I continue? And each of these examples can itself be broken down further: the Romans got their alphabet from the Greeks, who created theirs by stealing from the Phoenicians, and so on. No civilization is authentic, monolithic, pure the exact opposite is true.
"What today's nationalists and neosegregationists fail to understand," Kwame said, "is that the basis of every human culture is, and always has been, synthesis.
This one’s a tad long but I still think about it after like 4 years:
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