Like the coronavirus in the
early 2020s, HIV/AIDS in the mid-1980s and for at least a decade after then paid
little or no attention to national borders or even to nationalities. Even
though coronavirus freely walked through the boundaries of our various group-identities
with the implication being that they are actually artificial demarcated
constructions, AIDS showed us that sub-societal cultural differences do exist.
In fact, within a given sub-culture and thus group-identity, one set of values
may be ethically and psychologically better than another set, so broad-strokes can
be understood as over-simplifications.
The full essay is at "Downtown."