Gurkhas R Us

For much of my life, I have been surrounded by people browner than myself.

It is getting to the point, that I have been working for people browner than myself longer than I have worked for middle aged white guys, although I am a middle aged white guy now myself.

I think this is a Good Thing.

I sometimes think that us managerial middle aged white guy types, are almost the Gurkhas of the modern world, those of us that are smart enough to get on the train anyway. It is almost certainly going to be a Chinese and Indian new world order. And if there is anything the Western middle-class is good at, it is being mercenary. Perhaps we should embrace our inner natures and modern realities and just accept it.

So yeah, I'll wear my sun hat and cream when I visit your country, because I am melanin deficient, and you take your vitamin D supplements when you visit mine, because you are melanin over-endowed, and if we cut a good deal, yes I will go out and metaphorically slay your enemies for you. Most white people just haven't come around to this way of thinking yet, but I think it is what the future holds for us. Honorable Mercenaries R Us. Gurkhas, in short.

Dear new world masters, I do hope you will be smarter than we were though, and not throw us into the metaphorical equivalents of Verdun.