text: This and other writers make things so complicated. Let me make things real and simple.
  
  For much of the last few centuries European empires led by the British and French empires, and in the 20th century by the American empire, ran and plundered the world. Things were most splendid. The wars sweet, the wealth sweeter. Today the British and French empires are finished, the American on the way out. This exposes a couple of unpleasant things - money is tight, unemployment high, infrastructure in poor shape. But most of all, a cultural mess due to mixing of the elites who used to run the empires and their import of people from all over their conquest. 
  
  France and UK both have high immigrants from former colonies - North Africa, India, Middle East, etc. The U.S. have a huge population of former black slaves, leftover Mexicans, descendent's of Chinese cheap labor who built the railroad. The white Christian elites, the rulers are now finally facing blowbacks from their empires on all fronts.