War and Mental Health

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1472271/ 

Reading of clashes takes its toll. When one thinks back over one's life one sees that people separate more or less depth of relationships based on ethnicity, race, religious affiliation, birth place or nationality. In war this is simply placed in cartoonlike contrast to normal everyday life where such matters are subtly ignored. I recall reading of all the problems in Yugoslavia even where lots of mixed marriages had occurred during civil war there. One presumes one has left that sort of simple prejudice behind but it is never really the case. Being an immigrant or children of immigrants or mixed ethnically or racially can limit one's social circle. Subtle social signals are not understood. One belongs only partially in one or another world. In a country like America the whole culture is based on this constant churning of cultures, ethnicities. This could explain attempts at theories to organize reality like " intersectionality". Every subidentity gets value points. And the culture itself becomes a melange caricature of the old world as in Disneyworld castles and Mcdonald' s food replacing the real thing. Meanwhile in the old world the normal drama of wars, refugee crises, based heavily on unfortunate naive disneylike American fantasies of helping the world in Middle East and elsewhere continue. What was useful 80 years ago lost its lustr and became ever more harmful. Now major staes corral themselves porcupine like to protect from this approach. The naive American without roots or culture but just a pursuit of happiness believes in its ability to solve all problems. Organic habitual lifestyle anywhere on earth has its advantages in its long roots to the past from Asia and Europe to Africa. A shrinking world has brought people together who only partially understand and accept each other but live in metropolises with little contact to one another. Once basic economic needs can no longer be met animosities arise again. Today in the West multiculturalism has papered over lots of stresses but the economic crisis neccessitates an external enemy. Sometimes it is the evil drug baron, then the al quaeda and islam, next the Russian bear. Will we turn on each other next?