Monoculturalism KNOWS the one right easy way ahead - so who needs alternatives, allies... or employees ?

While that whole violent era between 1875 and 1965 was notably and horribly selfish, surprisingly,  this was actually incidental to its main thrust.

Accurate detailed reports of the Holocaust killings were "published" in NYT 5 years before they became "popular"

Publish early and accurate details of a global horror story in the Fall of 1941 --- but then bury it in a small story on page six and that's all, is to effectively kill that story with benign neglect.

Doing just enough to avoid the danger you can later be found to have failed to publish a world-class scoop on the planned murder of millions.

If those early accurate accounts of the various means being employed towards the total destruction of all of Eastern Europe's Jews had been put on the NYT front page, followed by a major editorial and a few opinion pieces from prominent pundits, the story might have 'caught fire' and gone from being merely tokenly 'published' to a truly widely discussed 'popular' news story.

It was not ---- so most people can honestly claim they had never 'heard' of the Holocaust details until the Fall of 1945....

Monoculturalism isn't just the thousands who murdered Jews and Roma but also the billions who were bystanders

It is comforting to billions of us - some of us who lived through WWII and the rest direct descendants of others who lived through that war - to see that much of the current Holocaust discussion now  focusses on the mindset of the thousands of individuals who directly murdered tens of millions of people in cold blood between 1939 and 1945.

Multiculturalism is the 'token hippie' variant of Monoculturalism

Seventy five years after WWII should have taught them better, all nations remain de facto monocultural but have learned to put up with some token multiculturalism, just as long as it restricts itself to a few street festivals with dancers in colourful 'ethnic' costumes and lots of spicy dishes.

But as the grandson of grandparents who came to Canada as young adults from England and Hungary, I have no one 'old country' ethnic culture to fit into under this multiple but strictly separate cultures model.

In WWII's all-important clash of ideas, the forces of polyculturalism defeated the force of monoculturalism, without really aware they had done so

History is always like that - it sees something profound happening in the past that people back then were not - or at best barely - aware of....

If 'modern' is just a fancy word for contemporary, then "academically", postmodern means nothing more profound than 'the future'

Rome in 30 BC was thought of as 'modern' to its contemporary residents, who felt they knew it quite well, but they if they thought at all of post modern Rome, say circa 313 AD, it  remained simply as something unknown and existing 'in the future'.

So those much use terms 'modern' and 'post modern' really tells us nothing about what might be potentially very different about these two Romes, simply that one existed earlier and the other later.