Everybody Is In Trouble, Including The Up-and-coming

With Globalization And With A Lot Of Power Evaporating From The Nation-states, The Late-19th Century Established Hierarchies Of Importance, Or 'pecking Orders' Of Cultures, Presenting Assimilation As An Advancement Or Promotion, Dissolved.

Fully "biodegradable" Structures Are Nowadays The Ideal And The Standards To Which Most, If Not All Structures, Struggle To Measure Up.

Partnerships Are Increasingly Seen Through The Prism Of Promises And Expectations, And As A Kind Of Product For Consumers: Satisfaction On The Spot, And If Not Fully Satisfied, Return The Product To The Shop Or Replace It With A New And Improved One! You Don't, After All, Stick To Your Car, Or Computer, Or Ipod, When Better Ones Appear.

There Is Less Pressure On Abandoning Native Communities: What For? There Is Nothing To Be Gained By It. On One Hand, There Are Plenty Tempting Opportunities Of Experimenting With Identities - Being One Kind Of Person Today And A Different The Next Day. On The Other Hand, There Is Little Pressure To Include The Ethnic Identity Or Religious Identity Into This Mechanism, Because Now Everybody Is In A Kind Of Diaspora Today.

As To Describing Me As An Outsider Throughout, And An Outsider Through And Through - I Have No Reason To Disagree.