Posted on 09/04/2019 1:32:23 PM PDT by Perseverando
GREAT WALL OF CHINA
By 220AD, the Later Eastern Han Dynasty had extended sections of the Great Wall of China along its Mongolian border.
This resulted in the Northern Huns attacking west instead of east.
This caused a domino effect of displaced tribes migrating west across Central Asia, and overrunning the Western Roman Empire.
OPEN BORDERS
Illegal immigrants poured across the Roman borders:
Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Franks, Anglos, Saxons, Alemanni, Thuringians, Rugians, Jutes, Picts, Burgundians, Lombards, Alans, Vandals, as well as African Berbers and Arab raiders.
Will and Ariel Durant wrote in The Story of Civilization (Vol. 3-Caesar and Christ, Simon & Schuster, 1944, p. 366):
"If Rome had not engulfed so many men of alien blood in so brief a time,
if she had passed all these newcomers through her schools instead of her slums, if she had treated them as men with a hundred potential excellences,
if she had occasionally closed her gates to let assimilation catch up with infiltration,
she might have gained new racial and literary vitality from the infusion, and might have remained a Roman Rome, the voice and citadel of the West."
LOSS OF COMMON LANGUAGE
At first immigrants assimilated and learned the Latin language. They worked as servants with many rising to leadership.
But then they came so fast they did not learn Latin, but instead created a mix of Latin with their own Frankish, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, Germanic and Anglo tribal tongues. (Romance Languages)
The unity of the Roman Empire began to dissolve.
WELFARE STATE
"Bread and the Circus!" Starting in 123 BC, the immensely powerful Roman politician, Gaius Gracchus began appeasing citizens with welfare, a free monthly dole (hand-out) of grain.
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It's been 3 years today since Jim Rob posted this, but I thought it was worth reposting. "The more things change, the more they remain the same."
There’s a reason why the Chinese civilization has existed over 3,000 years.
Meanwhile western cultures come and go.
Anyone who will know the #1 reason on the Fall of Rome? Watch on Youtube the 10? part series on Rome and watch the last 2 episodes only...
It was IMMIGRATION. The foreigners or immigrants did NOT want to assimilate into the army and cities and had their own barbaric cultures, which resulted in the slow break-up of the empire.
not saying I disagree.... but what reason are you implying?
derrr... nevermind... border protection. I spoke (typed) too soon.
Well the Mongols conquered China and ruled it for about a hundred years.
The Manchus (Jurchens) conquered China and ruled it for some 300 years, until the Chinese empire fell in 1910.
bkmk
Making boys sit on pegs all day so they could have their way with them at night.
To me, it’s fairly straightforward. Although you may have freedom now, you won’t keep it unless you continue to fight for it. Just because we don’t have a draft currently, and there is no Vietnam War looming for us as there was during the youth of many FReepers, doesn’t mean that there aren’t the same kind of threats in the world. Unless you are willing to die for principle, you will be at the mercy of others.
Well that could get uncomfortable.
I have said for many years (and Gibbon and Montesquieu agree) diversity is a nation killer and it is dooming the United States to the same fate as Rome.
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