Is the world becoming too united?

When I look at my country I see that we are losing our cultures and our traditions. Globalization has caused much harm than good here.

Exporting rice from China, India and Thailand my people have stopped consuming maize which they planted. My generation has been brought up eating rice and those past years the price of rice has been continually rising. Some people have tried to go back to maize but this generation is not used to it and we simply can’t. I could go on with some other examples but I don’t like making long comments.

We are so much influenced that it can only end by us not having a definite identity. I would like the people here to advance but not to forget that we have a history (slavery, British colonization, our music, our dances etc..) and not to forget that above all we are a (poor but) proud nation. I want my nation to preserve its identity. We are not an independent nation and until so we should not share what makes us unique.

The last century saw Europe twice ravaged by war. Unless you live here or have family who lived here during those times, I don't think you can have any concept of how dark those years were. Since becoming a more unified Europe, the wars we've had have come from sweeping freedoms against Communism and countries to redefine their borders back to their original ethnic boundaries. Largely, I think Civil War on a larger scale is unlikely here, even with the parlous state of European finances (a time when war is often most likely). Similarly the USA. I don't think civil war is likely there, either.

As long as states join a union based on choice, I don't see a problem. Where they are forced, such as the socialist republics of the former USSR, then there will be tension.

Sure, that is why the world currently has 13 major wars going on right now. Not to mention the 32 minor wars also being fought currently. We are united as hell on this planet.

We're not united.
We're divided yet sometimes, grudgingly working together either for economic benefit or because sometimes, it's better to be friends with the guy with bigger guns than to not.

We need to realize that cultures will not stay self-preserved forever. The world changes, things change, they always have and they always will. If your culture means so much to you, you can preserve it within your own people without having to fight others or cultural change, such as the Westernization of the Middle East. If the people are dedicated to their culture, it will survive the tests of time.

We need to realize that we all need to agree on some kind of common ground in order to live in harmony. We have to work together to establish a common morality that everyone can live with and it may require that some of us make sacrifices for the greater good, that anti-gay Christians put down their dogmas against homosexuals, that more patriarchal societies put down their restrictions on a women's role in society to female foreigners are not prosecuted for showing their faces in public.

Unity requires peace and peace requires compromise and compromise means that a few of us have to be willing to lose a few battles so that the entirety of us may win the war. We can live together without oppressing one another, it just takes some work.

We need to come together but in the right way. It cant be world conquest from one group of very rich men. It should be in respect for each other and realizing we are basically the same. When you look at the whole perspective.

I don't think we're really united at all. The UN may try to actually accomplish things, but they really don't accomplish much across the ocean.

As for the destruction of individual culture, that isn't really that much of a problem. Culture is mostly a function of geography and population. It doesn't matter if nations are united, the people can still retain an individual culture.

On your next points, that one united nation would create division and civil war, I'm honestly not sure where to start.

Civil wars are generally caused by the oppression or outright violence of one group of people against another within the same nation. With a global nation, there's really nothing to encourage this to happen. If anything, we're removing one thing that people could discriminate against.

Why exactly you believe that crime would increase, I have no idea. There is actually one very large advantage of having a united world. If a criminal manages to escape from one country to another, he/she can be effectively followed without jurisdiction issues.

Cultural clashes would increase? Why? There's no particular reason for them to. While the world may be united, the independent nations still retain autonomous governments and so there's nothing forcing people together or apart that would cause these conflicts any more than there are now.

Now as a change of pace, I actually agree with you in housing associations. I really don't like that someone else can force me to take something down or pay X amount of dollars to do something that I don't want.

No. You have it all wrong. The world is devided and as long as the world at large has crappy leaders, it'll continue deviding. We need the world to UNITE, not devide.

How exactly does being more united cause more wars? I do believe wars are usually a direct cause of two sides being divided on some important issue.

Worried things are becoming less diverse? In what way? Individual people will still make their own choices, it's not like simply by creating these unions for world leaders to discuss issues together you're changing the personality and the interests and the culture of every other person in the world. The UN has been such a blessing in putting an end to several wars and atrocities, and you think this is a bad thing?

I don't even know where to start on this, I have too much on my mind to type out a better response right now.