Humanity is gripped by a crisis of identity...

Humanity is gripped by a crisis of identity, as various peoples and groups struggle to define themselves, their place in the world, and how they should act. Without a vision of shared identity and common purpose, they fall into competing ideologies and power struggles.
Seemingly countless permutations of “us” and “them” define group identities ever more narrowly and in contrast to one another.
Over time, this splintering into divergent interest groups has weakened the cohesion of society itself.
Rival conceptions about the primacy of a particular people are peddled to the exclusion of the truth that humanity is on a common journey in which all are protagonists.

(18 January 2019 – To the Bahá’ís of the World)
  The Universal House of Justice.