⚔️In many parts of the world, ancient rivalries aren’t just history, they’re...

⚔️In many parts of the world, ancient rivalries aren’t just history, they’re culture. Conflict is inherited, rehearsed, and remembered.

When people migrate, they don’t leave these feuds behind, they bring them with them. Most global bloodshed? Not between strangers, but between cousins fighting over overlapping claims, same roots, same land, one step removed.

� Examples Across Civilizations:

Balkans: Serbs vs Croats vs Bosniaks All South Slavs, divided by religion and history. Genocidal war erupted not from difference, but proximity.

Middle East: Sunni vs Shia Islam Originating from a succession dispute after Muhammad’s death—over centuries it became a foundational schism, often violent, between almost identical cultures.

Rwanda: Hutu vs Tutsi Same language, religion, and land—but Belgian colonial favoritism and power imbalances turned ethnic cousins into executioners.

India-Pakistan One people divided by religion and partition. Conflict continues despite shared language, ancestry, and customs.

China: Han vs Tibetan/Uighur minorities Internal ethnic conflicts framed as cultural integration but experienced as domination by closely co-located groups with long intertwined histories.

Nigeria: Fulani herders vs Christian farmers Ecological pressure drives ancient competition over land and resources between populations living side by side.

� Takeaway: People raised in North America often assume cultural diversity means peaceful difference. But elsewhere, shared history, not alienness, fuels the worst and most violent conflicts. Understanding this reframes world politics: it’s about reciprocity within overlapping demonstrated interests, not about ideology or ignorance.