I don't think pride is warranted, as you do nothing to earn being born in a race or a nation, but you can be honored by it, I guess, or you can at least like it, in that same line, you can't put down or glorify an ethnicity, but there can't be real diversity without differences, ethnic or otherwise.
Of course you need to assimilate if you want to be part of a nation, which is something many something-Americans or Europeans don't do.
I once thought a cosmopolitan globalized society was the way to go, Arthur C Clarke would be disappointed.
This, I think it's probable we'll reach a regression before reaching any kind of singularity, let alone space travel.
If anything, we'll see the birth of self aware AI, in our lifetimes.
I guess that's a better way of describing it. It's just become frustrating that with all the identity politics of today, certain sects can't show any pride without it being deemed racist or privileged.
I just posted the same thought. The species is moving backwards. Everyone wants unification and borderless countries, but the last few years show that were not even remotely near that point as a people.
But yes, AI is inevitable. Amazing to think fragile humans that grew out of caves are one day going to create immortal beings with limitless intelligence.