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and the thing with multiculturalism is that it is also completely unnatural. it can only exist in a regime which forces it upon its people. you like to say europeans are just racist and xenophobic...well most countries are smart enough to just not have any immigration at all, like china, japan, korea etc.
Europeans presented the largest movement of humans from one region of the world, to another (Europe, to the Americas, past 400 years). Immigration doesn't work? I beg to differ!
Multiculturalism will naturally occur when a certain group feels it wants to retain its identity. The Jews in Europe for the past 2000 years are a great example. Blacks in the USA another. They basically carved out their own culture within the nation and now have enough power to move whole elections in whichever direction they feel is beneficial to them.
So this "multiculturalism" is unnatural? Bullshit. It's totally natural and occurs very often throughout history.
Even within the USA and Canada there are different forms of multiculturalism that arise. We have rural culture, (white, Christian, conservative etc), and the urbanite culture (liberal leaning, multiethnic, multilingual, etc). And quite often these two cultures are at each other's throats.
I don't support multiculturalism that champions 3rd world traditions, but many comments here are simply oozing xenophobia. Too many posters are unwilling, or unable to differentiate culture and ethnicity and simply go on anti European people rants (even if implied and subtle).
you are so completely wrong. multi-ethnic states do nothing but disentegrate. look at any empire in human history. soviet union, balkans, austria hungary etc etc etc etc. it almost always ends in bloodshed (as it did with the jews in europe). blacks were brough to the united states as slaves and remained as 2nd class citizens. race in the united states has ALWAYS been one of the countries most divisive issues. a country with only one ethnic group will escape all of this race baiting automatically!
blacks and jews were tolerated to the point where they would never constitute a majority, unable to work in certain fields, forced to separate etc.
and you have proven my point quite nicely. yes, europeans came here in great numbers, and it worked out great! for THEM!! what about the
host culture that was here first? almost completely obliterated!! i wouldnt call their culture anything close to dominant, if even on the radar at all. thats what unrelenting mass immigration did to them. everything else was merely a consequence of foreign migration.
if you have any examples of succesful multi-ethnic states, i would love to hear about them. the only one i can think of is switzerland. which leads me to believe this is the exception, not the rule.
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