Let’s take a break from “Social Sustainability Interpretations of Social Issues” and open a new topic.  
The focus of most of these Posts has been to prepare societies and our global civilization for recovery after the current spate of cataclysms comes to a halt.  That global view, however, ignores the fact that many societies have already experienced cataclysms of their own.  Consider the social, political and economic/financial cataclysms that are now affecting the populations of Syria and Iraq.  Consider, too, the similar destruction in Africa:  Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Chad, Sudan, Mali and others.

Not too far back in history indigenous societies and cultures in the United States suffered similar, culture-killing cataclysms as well:  Apache, Blackfoot, Cherokee, Dakota, Flathead, Hopi, Iowa, Kiowa, Lakota, Nez Percé, Navajo, Osage, Pawnee, Seminole, Tulalip, Ute, Yaquina and Zuni to name only a few.   We also must add several million slaves who were uprooted from their cultures and societies in Africa.  The rest of the world could look much the same after 2030. 
 
For the majority in those shattered cultures and societies their lives are still much like a post-apocalyptic scene of social destruction and chaos, with the three pillars of societal functioning, (social, political and economic/financial), being almost non-existent.  Native Americans and African Americans have the most to gain by accepting, adopting and promoting their social, political and economic/financial equality using the three universal and timeless values that have supported our species:  quality of life, growth and equality. They are universal to our species which includes everyone.  

The possibility of developing social stability, let alone social sustainability, may seem like sci-fi fiction, but it would be far better than the sci-fi, post-apocalyptic reality that most of them are living in now.  The progress of these two large groups is dependent upon that unique 1% of their citizens to intentionally and consciously begin using and promoting the fundamental values and principles of social sustainability. 
 
●  Do you know someone who is a cultural leader in any of the Native American populations?  or, an African American who is a cultural leader?  If you do, provide then with the Dropbox link that is provided at the bottom of every post.  Remarkably, these large minority groups, as well as the burgeoning Hispanic minority, could become the social, political and economic/financial leaders of every nation, particularly in North and South American democracies.