Globalism and the Anachronism of Identity Politics

In the United States today almost every "white" person is really an "American" blend of random European ancestry but has zero connection or affiliation with Europe. That sort of mixing of groups and tribes has been going on forever. The idea of "white" people as a catchall term is a pretty recent idea that probably only makes sense after the settlement of the New World. Those people's ancestors used to be Germans, or were Polish, Italian, Scots, or Irish or whatever, in an even earlier era, those people's ancestors were Swabians, or Bavarians or Lombards or whatever.

The idea that "white people" went around enslaving every browner person is a pretty recent idea, too, because for thousands of years the tribes of the ancestors of the "white people" of today were slaughtering and pillaging and enslaving each other when browner people weren't doing the same to them.

The main driver of human history seems to be that it's easier to take and destroy than it is to make. The people who settle down and invest in infrastructure, towns, and cities end up at a distinct disadvantage to the groups who are more pastoral and mobile in many respects. But the mobile/pastoral life seems to suck so much that those groups want to abandon that lifestyle as soon as they can once they encounter the settled life.

One of the weirder aspects of "globalism" is how it exploits identity politics, really a super dumb version of identity being derived from skin tone, even though globalism is supposedly all about the "one world" of coca cola commercials with all hues of singing children who achieve their human dignity through consumerism and by chasing money tokens.