Multiculturalist > Global Homogenous
In many ways, my journey in the United States is the complete inverse of Ho Chi Minh’s. Ho Chi Minh (fake name) never received much validation globally. Eisenhower ignored him (ghosted him), and where did he end up? In beautiful New York City—Harlem, to be exact—listening to Marcus Garvey discuss oppression. When someone receives no validation, they often connect with narratives of oppression.
So, what did the little fella do? He went home and embraced homogeneous concepts under the veil of sovereignty. He constructed a narrative to create a “safe space” for his phenotype by eradicating any semblance of multiculturalism. This led to famine after famine, social experiment after social experiment, ultimately shaping a society that genetically produced one of the “shortest” populations in the world.
Eventually, the United States provided the lifeblood of free trade (top 5) —a system that amplified these homogeneous ideals. It exclusively welcomed global, homogeneous adopters, requiring them to deeply immerse themselves in the identity of a single culture and live by its tenets.
You should see the foreign fund managers—they’re quite the piece of liberal work with their little cultural customs. It’s hilarious and, by no means, indicative of any real talent in predicting the direction of any relevant market by the minute.
A multiculturalist thrives among everyone and everything—the complete opposite of a monoculturalist.
The multiculturalist receives multiple streams of validation from all peoples, irrespective of race or creed, from uptown to midtown to downtown. Because they draw validation from diverse sources, they tend to be the most psychologically healthy. As social creatures, we all seek some form of visibility or acknowledgment, particularly when it stems intellectually from one’s original, world-class ideas.
Consider, for example, the realm of finance. The percentage of published authors with a real publishing house who have a WASP surname, compared to those with a surname like “Pham,” is an extreme outlier. To even receive an email of this candor and self-awareness is beyond the capacity of someone too heavily invested in any monoculture.
The biggest issue arises when you lack multiple streams of validation: you compensate or go all in on one. When you rely entirely on a single source, you may do anything to maintain it even if it creates an ugly world.