IT is good that God made diversity. The races and ethnicities have their own distinctive personalities. Diversity in the true sense is not diversity in the politically correct sense. Diversity in the politically correct sense was condemned by God as human arrogance and pride:

And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven: and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building.

And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed. Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another’s speech. And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city. And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries. [Genesis: 11:4-9]

Here is an interesting essay on the theme of ethnic diversity.  In “How Silent Night Reflects the German Mentality,” Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira examines the differences in how Germans and Italians celebrate Christmas.

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F. writes:

I was delighted to see you bring up  the Tower of Babel! In my opinion, this is the best parallel for our modern situation. We have become prideful. In an unhealthy cycle, we remove God from our lives and replace him with our personal desires. Many people are so sure that they are not beholden to any authority that transcends their individual self. The drive for complete interpersonal equality and personal autonomy is, I think,  an effort to make the individual all-powerful-Godlike.

At the same time we build increasingly complex, fragile, systems that sustain some of us in comfortable, but artificial lifestyles. Taken together these are  a new Tower of Babel. I wonder if it will end the same way.

Wishing you and your readers a Merry Christmas (oops I almost wrote good holidays).

Hurricane Betsy writes:

Very good!  It should be obvious that ethnicity/race would affect our behavior and art.

You linked to an article by Corrêa de Oliveira, and I would like to point out a mistake in the second line of the German (original) version of Silent Night.

It should be “Alles schlaft” not “Alles schaft.” And the “a” in schlaft should have an umlaut.  It is pronounced shlalyft.   LOL!  The mistakes continue.  The proper German words are easy to find on the blessed worldwide web.

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