Saint Guinefort
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Let's not overthink this.
Whoever has been in a solid majority and faces the likelihood of losing that status is going to feel very uneasy about it.
We can insert all kinds of sociological factors,
and they can even have substantial validity to them,
but none of them will be more impactful than relatively comfortable people facing forced change.
We all shared this vision of all people accepting one another in harmony,
but that was too far fetched for any of us to truly believe it would happen,
and sure enough, it never did.
We're now coming to terms with knowing both sides,
the side with the advantage,
and the side with the disadvantage,
of why heterogeneous societies will always be uneasy for those within them.
Theoretically, multiculturalism could indeed have advantages.
In reality, we haven't discovered them yet.
It's not the scenario that we may have wanted, but it's the one that clearly exists.
This is all quite true. But it is doubly concerning for a majority group who has been rather, shall we say, "unfriendly" to anyone who is not in their group. And white people in the US have definitely sowed the wind and know that they run a very real risk of reaping the whirlwind.
It doesn't always happen, but usually a guilty conscience can't hide itself very well.