Human Monoculture

Human monoculture is a term used to describe many cultures absorbed by a single dominant culture. Today, Europe's neocolonialism is a very active force in constructing and maintaining a massive global monoculture, Earth's largest Empire in recorded history. Human monocultural is examined and debated by many disciplines, including neuroscience, behavioral science, information technology, economics, law, linguistics, social anthropology, and so on.

Behavioral science and cultural anthropology

Behavioral Science and Cultural Anthropology depict our monoculture as resource compensation . On the one hand, prehistoric migration of human settlement results in development of human RAS Reticular Activating System, predisposing us to technological diversification and social specialization. On the other hand, extinction events and violent colonization strip humanity of its advantages. Migration and fall-back characterize life for many species on Earth, including our near and distant relatives (see Gombe Chimpanzee War). Human settlement is naturally static and resists diversification in protective community structures; however, econo-political expansion is a normal feature of human settlement, involving complex dynamic interaction between human groups .

Monoculture in human settlement is the relative lack of cultural alternatives in that settlement. Compare monoculturalism, a sociopolitical perception attached to the human settlement patterns represented by human monocultures. Human cultures tend to diversify culturally, when not under stress. Significant stressors include military occupation and natural catastrophe. Other factors include technological overlay of multiple human settlements and cultures .

Spiritual monoculture

Religious extremism has long dominated European and Middle East cultures. Today they are heavily engaged in military conflict defined as the 1,600-year long Crusades. Warfare and genocide characterize many monocultural approaches to faith today: in particular, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and Jewish faiths. Religious conflict is an outcome of cultures conflicting for dominance, need of resource efficiency stimulates that conflict outcome.

Colonial occupation

France, Spain and England are responsible for creating massive global monocultures to service their current colonial occupations on all continents and across Oceania. The entire landmass of North America, Central America and South America is a Eurocentric monoculture. Likewise, Australia and New Zealand. Much of Africa, though war torn through reactive resistance, remains colonized, managed by European banks and resource extraction, though Africans resist monoculture. China is now beginning to establish global monocultural policies, in conflict with Europe's Empire of the day. Monoculture is an attractive policy direction for many good immediate reasons. Lack of diversification enables easy resource extraction and simplified population management. Monoculture is a corporate and military objective.

Not all monocultures are formed through violence. Economic necessity can build very large inter-urban networks in a region encompassing many cultures. Terminating internal cultural diversification, this process tends to eventually remove peripheral diversity, as human settlement expands. Armed occupation often results in absorption of culltures into the occupying monocuture, not through overt conflict, but by threat of conflict. This often overlays and obfuscates peaceful inclusion through necessity, confronting patterned ignorance typifying a global colonial monoculture.

The near extinction event

At the point in time when the Extinction Event occurs, the impact on human culture is fundamental. Supervolcano events extract the greatest human toll, with die-back to tropical Africa and only African population survival occurring many times. Sometimes, the surviving human population may number only in the thousands with life expectancy in the twenties. Culture in the aftermath is poorly defined, except perhaps as very primitive human culture. Technological and linguistic traits may not be represented for tens or hundreds of thousands of years. No human industrial society has faced a major extinction event. Such events have been unpredictable in the past, when multiple languages and diversified cultures resisted scientific understanding of the Event. Today, with global population pressure leading to monocultural accretion of multiple competitive technology streams, we know for certain that our next Event will occur with the eruption of super volcano Yellowstone. Its last two eruptions terminated 90% of all life to a depth of 500 meters under the ocean surface of our planet. Diversified human culture is proven .

Today's monocultural appearance is troubling

Survivability in the Americas

Monocultures are prone to devastation. This is because lack of human genetic diversification results in inflexible response to population stressors that accompany extinction events. Humans instinctively diversify, when not threatened by conflict or impacted by regular global extinction events. Large inter-urban and small tribal monocultures resist diversity.

The establishment of monocultures also involves devastating conflict. Dominance of certain human cultures favors genocide. Monoculture is the outcome of genocide. For example, American populations were highly susceptible to small pox, which was then rapidly deployed by Europeans as biowarfare to remove American settlements. Attacked American settlements' survivors were quickly assimilated.

Military threats to human survival cannot be ignored. While relatively benign nuclear threats are managed,, biological warfare is not controlled. The United States weaponized ebola in 2014. Today, Ebola virus and now Zika virus generate expected International concern around biological warfare. . Is weaponized Ebola really a threat ?

Centralized resource extraction hubs, urban port cities compensate population crowding and disease with rapid access to and development of food, health and environmental technologies around those hubs. European monoculture is replacing American cultures today in most of the Canada colony, and in numerous colonies attached to Central and South American tropical rain forest. Countless national agencies deploy in the colonies to intercept and indoctrinate or extinguish newly occupied or reactive cultures, replacing American cultures with European culture. Survivor absorption is an expected outcome that is purported by the occupier today to minimize colonial brutality. That is, monoculture teds to remove or conceal racial stereotyping and racially motivated attacks. Especially in the Americas, and in Canada in particular, England and its colonial allies direct that deceptive 'monocultural' inclusion of Americans. Colonist community response, colony enforcement and military, and European business interests are not inclusive. Monoculture involves global dominance with human rights depravity denounced loudly, regularly. The United States and the International Criminal Court are legal combatants. Yet with global dominance, Empire proclaims that monoculture upholds human justice, with an International Criminal Court that patently defers "American" status to colonial citizens whose colonial governance refuses to comply with the ICC . Leading many under the office of a Kenyan President of the colony nation state to ask the question, concerning Americans and Africans in the Americas, "Who is more oppressed?" .

Colonial monocultures of Europe deserve a special recognition. Expanding monocultures, by extending available material resource and thus human resource, are self-perpetuating as long as there are more conquests available, or facilitated. This human settlement pattern appears to parallel extinction and survival for all species on Earth in the human fossil record and the records of other species, for tens of millions of years. European econo-military expansion for thousands of years has self-terminated when it runs out of (or ceases to facilitate) new resource. Until then, benefits outweigh disadvantage for the dominant occupying culture. Typically, under a European occupation, the occupied cultures endure subsistence, accommodate environmental decimation and transient genocide campaigns, suffer mass child abduction events, overcome the ongoing rape and murder of tens of thousands of women and girls each year, in the monocultural presentation of multiple 'nation states (jingoism)' .

Benefits of monoculture in the Americas

The benefits of monoculture are as enormous as the devastation that accompanies human crowding associated with European neo-colonialism in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Technological advance is a primary settlement incentive, with benefits ranging from longevity and improved health, to technological extension and scientific development, food security, safe habitation, higher education, and more sophisticated resource management.

Populations subjected by colonization see none or little of those benefits, but they are there to consider, and for a few, to enjoy. This subsistence appreciation of benefit is common to all of Europe's global conquests. Poverty, while it may be dismissed as a 'sub-culture' in Eurocentric traditions, defines not the visitor but the resident cultures of the American, Eurasian and African land masses. Poverty represents a barrier to uptake of European monoculture .

See also

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Further reading

[9] Sexual Paradox: Complementarity, Reproductive Conflict & Human Emergence] - on the mass extinction of biological and genetic diversity
[10] Extinction Events That Almost Wiped Out Humans - paleoanthropology, "Research suggests as few as 2,000 humans were left alive by the Toba eruption and its aftereffects."
[11] Rethinking Modern Human Origins: Getting out of Out of Africa, James Kendrick - post-Toba African Horn migration mixing with small groups of Eurasian and American survivors (references)
[12] Mike Brass 2002 Affinities of the Paleoindians (sic) - Pleistocene colonization preceding Toba
[13] Early Hominin Paleoecology - hominid migration, tool cultures and morphological developments
[14] The Primitive Hunter Culture, Pleistocene Extinction, and the Rise of Agriculture - Clovis culture and other human evolution and technology in the Americas

External links

• [15] American rural food culture
• [16] American rural gathering and storage