Almost all ‘nations’ are ethnically hybrid. Yet some workers believe that the country they happen to have been born in has some unique supremacy over others. They riot over the existence of those who are recent additions to the ethnic mix and care little when groups of desperate people drown in attempts to cross to these shores.
This xenophobia suited the early development of national capitalism, but it is out of sync with the modern global variety, which exploits workers internationally regardless of their culture or skin colour. Yet the chauvinism lingers on, just one of capitalism’s contradictions that will be resolved by the establishment of a new borderless, stateless society where all are regarded as equal without distinction of ethnicity.