B. Lorenzo Buckinchere
Feb 25, 2024
Sure, it may seem that way on the surface, and that is always the selling point that they use to suck you in. But once you are on the inside long enough, you begin to see that melting pots are nothing more than the epicenter of where everyone gets cooked alive in the rat race. Thing of it is, when several groups of people, who feel powerless in their conditions are being cooked alive together, the only thing left to do is to snap on each other. This is what they call divide and conquer.
First of all, what is a melting pot? A melting pot as they have described it, is a large metropolitan city that is densely populated with plenty of ethnic diversity due to large immigrant populations who have settled there from all over the world. Examples of melting pots in the United States include; New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Boston, Las Vegas, Baltimore, Atlanta, etc. Examples of melting pots on the international scene include; London, Rome, Paris, Dubai, Berlin, Toronto, etc.
Though I am sure it’s the same all across the board, in this article, I will only be covering the American melting pots. This is because as an immigrant from Jamaica, I have lived in the US for 16 years. 8 years in New York, 5 years in Los Angeles, and 3 years in San Diego. I left Jamaica at age 19, and my many years of incalculable experience living from coast to coast qualifies me to accurately describe my experience dealing with immigrants in the rat race. If you had a different experience than I did, be sure to let me know in the comments.
With ethnic diversity comes cultural diversity. And due to this cultural diversity, there are more available options for eating out at different restaurants, interracial dating, and being introduced to different music genres, fashion styles, etc. That is usually the selling point that they use to enhance the city brand, and get more people to move there. When you get there, things may seem fine at first, until you get your very first culture shock.
That usually happens before the end of the first month of your new job in that city. You will not realize at first that your new colleagues, most of whom also come from an immigrant background, are more interested in competing with you for a raise, or a promotion. And that any inquiries into where you are from sounds more like an interrogation to build a profile on you for them to sell your information to different gang-stalking sleeper cells operating within that city. Cultural sharing is the last thing on their mind in the rat race, but they will use it to befriend you to further their agenda.
Humanity is very tribal, and every race wants to be number 1 in the rat race. There is a reason why “race” is a slang word for ethnicity. Now I believe that God created the different races to make life more interesting, and there can indeed be real sharing of culture. But not in a rat race where everyone is scampering about looking for cheese. They are not your friends, they are your competition, and they want double for your trouble.
If you don’t believe me, try getting into a bind. Especially of a vehicular, or financial nature, and see how many passersby will eagerly rush to your aid. Most people would be more interested in reveling in your downfall by uttering remarks like, “I know how it goes, bro,” before taking off. Oh, that’s right, it is fashionable to be rude. They actually think it’s cute, those doggone city slickers. Would they still think it was cute if I were to punch their lights out? The only reason they want to help you is to pry into your life. I would have actually been better off if they ignored me in the first place.
The people who designed the melting pot cities did not really create them with cultural sharing in mind. Sure, they used the term “melting pot” to lure you in. But once they knew they actually had you, their only interest was in profiting off cheap immigrant labor, by exploiting a bunch of hungry-bellied opportunists who brought some distasteful ghetto habits with them from wherever they are coming from, and would much rather fight among themselves in a cruel game of divide and conquer, than to come together to create true, lasting wealth.
Sure, they want you to date each other, and get knocked up. Just so that you can produce a new life in an unsustainable environment who will turn out to be just another mentally damaged taxpayer cog in a machine 20 more years from now. The current cogs know that they are being played, and they don’t care. They would still walk right into the hands of the chess master, so long as they have someone to pick on. At some point, you have to stop blaming the system for the current situation.
Why would I get mad at a barking dog if I know that it is within a dog’s nature to bark? It is the system’s nature to exploit, so it is a goddamned waste of time to complain about it and make up excuses all day. I recommend assessing where you currently are, where you want to be, and how you intend on getting there. Most importantly, work in silence, and only announce the finished product, not your progress. Never lose sight of the fact that you are still in a rat race, full of rat bastards who will rat you out for a cocktail patty.
If being stuck in a gridlock on the freeway, or being packed together with other people in an overcrowded subway car like Sardines in a can, sounds like a hedonistic paradise to you, then be my guest. But if it sounds like a living nightmare to you, then at least I know I can trust you, and this article is for you.
The rat race actually begins in the home. My delusional old man used to tell me that the American Dream was everyone in the house pitching in on all the bills, and staying stuck together, even though we cannot stand each other. I never bought any of his filthy lies because that is not why I came to this country in the first place. That may be an immigrant dream, but it is not the American dream. If anything, it is a nightmare. The American dream so far as I am concerned, is also not about the white picket fence, and keeping up with the Jones’.
If that is your mindset, you are still stuck in the rat race, trying to impress a bunch of people who could care less if you died. The real American Dream is the story of the pioneers of the west. Those brave men and women who had ridden off into the sunset way back in 1847 in search of the next frontier. The cowboys who settled on plains and prairies, anywhere from St. Louis to San Francisco, with acres of panoramic views as far as the eye can see. The American dream is about Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, that was written in the declaration of independence by Thomas Jefferson in 1776.
I don’t think that the pioneers of the west had any plans of starting a rat race while they were busy exploring new frontiers in search of bluer skies, some outback barbecue, and a taste of true American freedom. That came later! As more people from back east started settling on the west coast, they brought their greed, vanity and cultural idiosyncrasies with them. And just like that, the whole thing went to hell in a handbasket.
If you really want to share in other cultural experiences, you can do so by traveling overseas, and also by joining expat groups on social media. That is actually how you make real friends. But the so-called melting pots are only meant for working and paying bills. As grim as that sounds however, the American dream is not dead. I will keep it alive in my heart for as long as I live.
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