Linguistically and culturally, things are the way they are because of how history happened. The word “cell” was coined by its discoverer Robert Hooke because what he viewed under the microscope reminded him of monks’ ‘cells.’ North and South America, Africa, Australia, and parts of Asia speak the languages they do because of the European nations that colonized them. You think the way you do today because of how your life has unfolded up to this point. People in Barcelona eat bikini sandwiches because a famous club started serving them. The Giralda in Sevilla was originally a minaret for a mosque—you might not find a more unique blend between mosque and church anywhere. Can you imagine trying to explain these things to an alien? You would quickly fall down a rabbit hole of never-ending history, language, and culture. And it all stems from our collective identity, our human identity. If we appreciate our quirks and novelties and the route they undertook to become so, we will return to the global, to the One.