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Where is the scientific, historic or empirical evidence that the greater the racial, ethnic, cultural and religious diversity of a nation, the stronger it becomes?
Also, in a sense United States was populated by a rather diverse set of peoples (from many different European countries), who wanted to assimilate and create a new identity.
MisterLefty saysWhere is the scientific, historic or empirical evidence that the greater the racial, ethnic, cultural and religious diversity of a nation, the stronger it becomes?
dr6B says
Also, in a sense United States was populated by a rather diverse set of peoples (from many different European countries), who wanted to assimilate and create a new identity.
I would say the answer to the OP is right here in the USA. No country is more diverse than America, and no country is stronger than us.
America has also shown people from all over the world with different values and beliefs can generally live in peace in a democracy.
I would say the answer to the OP is right here in the USA. No country is more diverse than America, and no country is stronger than us.
Don't you know that eventually, in the same way that those "others" melted in to the white group, all these other groups that you fear or disparage will be part of a larger group ?
Trump just put a slow down on that
cause and effect.
the far lefties are doubling down on identity politics.
MisterLefty saysIs the Britain of Theresa May, with its new racial, religious and ethnic diversity, a stronger nation than was the U.K. of Lloyd George, which ruled a fourth of mankind in 1920?
British Empire in 1920 was far more "diverse" than Britain of Theresa May today. Not saying that it is good or bad, just pointing out a factual flaw in article.
Also, in a sense United States was populated by a rather diverse set of peoples (from many different European countries), who wanted to assimilate and create a new identity.
The Europeans making up the US are incredibly homogenous though by culture and race. Europeans with few exceptions are all very close to each other.
Europeans with few exceptions are all very close to each other.
mell saysbob2356 saysThe Europeans making up the US are incredibly homogenous though by culture and race. Europeans with few exceptions are all very close to each other.
Europeans of 19th century hated guts of each other and were culturally rather far apart from each other. I'd go out on a limb and say that South Italians or Spanish are closer to Persians or Christian Arabs culturally than to Scandinavians. Also, there were not insignificant numbers of Americans of Mexican origin (TX, NM), Chinese, Japanese on West Coast.
mell saysEuropeans with few exceptions are all very close to each other.
So that's why they spent thousands of years in endless wars. Because they are all so close to each other. Now I understand. ROFLOL.
tough stance on immigration from Mexico
Doesn't change the fact that they are incredibly homogenous. People fought wars for all kind of today considered petty reasons back then. Also science was lesser evolved. However most of them are either Christian or Orthodox, Caucasian (later Asians and Indians) and sport similar traditions and values. Once those issues were resolved they learned to live with each other quickly in peace. Absolutely no comparison to the endless wars of Africans and middle-easterns. America is a success story of Europeans, Asians and Indians.
However most of them are either Christian or Orthodox,
They learned to live together in piece when? You never heard of WWI or WWII?
Don't you know that eventually, in the same way that those "others" melted in to the white group, all these other groups that you fear or disparage will be part of a larger group ?
I think diversity is dangerous. however not diversity of color , religion etc. You have to have a shared belief, root for the same things, work for the common good. WE don't have that in America, dems hate America and all it stands for. Some recent immigrants are far more American than the liberlas.
That is, eventually the otherness people see in blacks or asians or people from india or the middle east, will disappear almost as much as the catholic versus protestant did.
We cannot all agree on every single issue. We hash it out in the voting booth and move on.
Trump has actually caused a dramatic uptick in tribalism. Racists feel more comfortable being open about their racism, and some of the far lefties are doubling down on identity politics. A mistake yes, but it's happening, cause and effect.
Provably wrong.
Go read the wikileaks where HRC backed extremists financed by Soros dressed like Bernie supporters and attack trump supporters, so as to smear both sides.
Trump finally made it ok not to give in to the left's weaponized istphobe-phobeist name calling. This is an amazing societal accomplishment that everyone should thank trump for.
The leftists, both the antifa extremists and CNN and even to a lesser extent the less active leftists like Marcus, are all going though stages of the extinction burst wherein simply accusing others of racism for wrongthink isnt good enough anymore.
bob2356 says
They learned to live together in piece when? You never heard of WWI or WWII?
WTF. After WWII they have lived together in peace. Something magical about democracy.
Normally yes. But Obama weaponized the DOJ and FBI and this whole thing of impeachment and Russia collusiuon-when Hilalry colluded witht eh Russians and FBI sets a dangerous precedent. Protest is fien and good-but turn into violence and start involving law enforcement to take action against opposition-a big no.
Obama is out of office since jan 2017. You didn't get the memo?
Strategist saysbob2356 says
They learned to live together in piece when? You never heard of WWI or WWII?
WTF. After WWII they have lived together in peace. Something magical about democracy.
Like the Yugoslavia thing?
Obama is out of office since jan 2017. You didn't get the memo?
You didn't refute either one.
My argument was simple. 2 statements.
Obama is out of office since jan 2017. You didn't get the memo? I guy called trump is president now and it's all better
he is working on it. He selected an imbecile Jeff Sessions who is just stupid. But the director, deputy director of FBI have all been fired and several key palyers of the coup have been forced to leave. He is getting there. My hope is after his brush he too will get onboard with criminal justice reform. That is one area I do not like with trump-his alw and order stance. WE need law and order-but they should serve the people, not the other waya round.
What he is working on is emulating putin where the president orders and law enforcement does without those nice little legalities like the rule of law holding things up.
What he is working on is emulating putin where the president orders and law enforcement does without those nice little legalities like the rule of law holding things up. I don't think I've ever liked anything Sessions stood for in the senate, but I am actually impressed at his standing by the rule of law at justice no matter how much it pisses off trump. who simply wants his own personal gestapo like all the other dictators he admires so much have.
Law and order is serving the people. Money launderers and tax evaders are going to jail. Are you saying they should be let off because they are friends of trump. Would that be serving the people?..
Zero facts support this. You've been lied to.
Strategist saysbob2356 says
They learned to live together in piece when? You never heard of WWI or WWII?
WTF. After WWII they have lived together in peace. Something magical about democracy.
Like the Yugoslavia thing?
Strategist saysbob2356 says
They learned to live together in piece when? You never heard of WWI or WWII?
WTF. After WWII they have lived together in peace. Something magical about democracy.
Like the Yugoslavia thing?
CBOEtrader says
Zero facts support this. You've been lied to.
ROFLOL. so trump lied to me with his tweets. If you say so.,
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Reaction to Carlson’s question, with some declaring him a racist for having raised it, suggests that what we are dealing with here is not a demonstrable truth but a creed not subject to debate.
Yet the question remains valid:
Where is the scientific, historic or empirical evidence that the greater the racial, ethnic, cultural and religious diversity of a nation, the stronger it becomes?
From recent decades, it seems more true to say the reverse: The more diverse a nation, the greater the danger of its disintegration.
Ethnic diversity, after all, tore apart our mighty Cold War rival, splintering the Soviet Union into 15 nations, three of which — Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia — have since split further along ethnic lines.
Russia had to fight two wars to hold onto Chechnya and prevent the diverse peoples of the North Caucasus from splitting off on ethnic grounds, as Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan had done.
Ethnic diversity then shattered Yugoslavia into seven separate nations.
And even as we proclaim diversity to be our greatest strength, nations everywhere are recoiling from it.
The rise of populism and nationalism across Europe is a reaction to the new diversity represented by the Arab, Asian and African millions who have lately come, and the tens of millions desperate to enter.
Center-left and center-right parties are losing ground in European elections because they are seen as feckless in meeting what more and more indigenous Europeans believe to be an existential threat — mass migration from across the Med.
Japan’s population has ceased to grow, and each year brings fewer toddlers into its schools. Yet Tokyo resists the racial and ethnic diversity greater immigration would bring. Why, if diversity is a strength?
What South Koreans dream of is uniting again with the 22 million separated members of their national family who live in the North, but share the same history and blood.
This summer, in its Basic Law, Israel declared itself an ethnonational state and national home of the Jewish people. African migrants crossing the Sinai to seek sanctuary in Israel are unwelcome.
Consider China, which seeks this century to surpass America as the first power on earth. Does Xi Jinping welcome a greater racial, ethnic and cultural diversity within his county as, say, Barack Obama does in ours?
In his western province of Xinjiang, Xi has set up an archipelago of detention camps. Purpose: Re-educate his country’s Uighurs and Kazakhs by purging them of their religious and tribal identities, and making them and their children more like Han Chinese in allegiance to the Communist Party and Chinese nation.
Xi fears that the 10 million Uighurs of Xinjiang, as an ethnic and religious minority, predominantly Muslim, wish to break away and establish an East Turkestan, a nation of their own, out of China. And he is correct.
What China is doing is brutalitarian. But what China is saying with its ruthless policy is that diversity — religious, racial, cultural — can break us apart as it did the USSR. And we are not going to let that happen.
Do the Buddhists of Myanmar cherish the religious diversity that the Muslim Rohingya of Rakhine State bring to their country?
America has always been more than an idea, an ideology or a propositional nation. It is a country that belongs to a separate and identifiable people with its own history, heroes, holidays, symbols, songs, myths, mores — its own culture.
Again, where is the evidence that the more Americans who can trace their roots to the Third World, and not to Europe, the stronger we will be?
Is the Britain of Theresa May, with its new racial, religious and ethnic diversity, a stronger nation than was the U.K. of Lloyd George, which ruled a fourth of mankind in 1920?
Was it not the unity Bismarck forged among the diverse Germanic peoples, bringing them into a single nation under the Kaiser in 1871, that made Germany a far stronger and more formidable power in Europe?
Empires, confederations and alliances are multiethnic and multicultural. And, inevitably, their diversity pulls them apart.
The British Empire was the greatest in modern history. What tore it apart? Tribalism, the demands of diverse peoples, rooted in blood and soil, to be rid of foreign rule and to have their own place in the sun.
And who are loudest in preaching that our diversity is our strength?
Are they not the same people who told us that democracy was the destiny of all mankind and that, as the world’s “exceptional nation,” we must seize the opportunity of our global preeminence to impose its blessings on the less enlightened tribes of the Middle East and Hindu Kush?
If the establishment is proven wrong about greater diversity bringing greater strength to America, there will be no do-over for the USA.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-14/pat-buchanan-unpardonable-heresy-tucker-carlson