How can we unite unique individuals?

Question from the Internet:

“In your opinion, what are a couple of ways that we as citizens can best serve to unify our country?”

Even within the same nation, country, even if everybody follows the same culture, religion, ideology, for example, individual people are still vastly different.

Uniting people needs a strong, common, practical goal everybody can work towards, everybody can feel a strong emotional connection to.

Usually, people rally, unite around something which is against others, as fierce, ruthless, exclusive competition, succeeding, surviving against others is “in our blood”.

So in a milder case sport, in a worse case war unites nations against others.

Wars are in themselves harmful and a “victor” can lose almost as much as the defeated. Moreover, in our times the picture has become even more complicated. We evolved into a globally integrated and fully interdependent system, where hurting others means hurting ourselves, as one part of the body started attacking another part.

Thus uniting a country today has to be part of uniting the whole world — above and against all the vast differences, against all the instinctive distrust, animosity, tendency to rule over, exploit others.

And this requires such common, collective goals, purpose everything can ascribe to, follow, which common goals, purpose can offset everything that separates people from each other.

And this requires a unique, purposeful and practical educational method that can help us understand, moreover, tangibly feel our total interdependence and how much our collective survival — against the growing, threatening global problems — is possible only if we mutually interconnect and cooperate. Later, as a result of the success of such national, international cooperation, as we secure our survival, we will see how much more, previously unimagined., unseen benefits such unity and cooperation can give us.