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Multiculturalism doesn’t make vibrant communities but defensive ones.
The American Conservative ^
| 15 January 2007
| Steve Sailer
Posted on 01/06/2007 7:19:14 AM PST by shrinkermd
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To: shrinkermd
"...that his latest research discoverythat ethnic diversity decreases trust and co-operation in communitieswas so explosive that for the last half decade he hadnt dared announce it..."![](http://stumpedmagazine.com/photos/afewgoodmen1.jpg)
You can't handle the truth!
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posted on
01/06/2007 9:21:50 AM PST
by
Jabba the Nutt
(Jabba the Hutt's bigger, meaner, uglier brother.)
To: norton
" The south has much..much better race relations than the north..."
To the extent this is true [not just different]
Oh yeah..it's true. You could feel the relief of tension down here. Now this was the 1978-1982 period and racial tensions might have been extraordinary at that time in the north. One thing that struck me right off was how many more mixed couples there were. You almost never saw that where I lived in the north. Also the young people were hanging out together. You never saw that in the north. I've lived here a long time now and don't know if it's ever gotten better in the north.
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posted on
01/06/2007 9:32:12 AM PST
by
bkepley
To: shrinkermd
Multiculturalism is shattering communities across the US by craeting physical and social borders and alienating the sense of "one people" we once shared as a nation. It is renewing many old tribal and race-based feuds that are only simmering below the surface.
Politicians have supported multiculturalism and they are writing the doom of America by not acknowledging us as one people, but a collection of hyphenated Americans.
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posted on
01/06/2007 9:36:23 AM PST
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: shrinkermd
This rang a bell with me. When I was stationed in Southeast Asia in '62 I noted the high degree of nepotism in both the Thai and South Vietnamese governemntns. I finally realized it was a matter of trust. You could trust members of your family because they were in the same boat with you. In the event of a coup or rebellion, they'd be punished whether or not they supported you, so they might as well support you. But you couldn't trust anyone else.
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posted on
01/06/2007 10:43:27 AM PST
by
JoeFromSidney
(My book is out. Read excerpts at www.thejusticecooperative.com)
To: ClaireSolt
The drastic measure I had in mind was for the govt to stop spending. That they will never do, though.
To: spanalot
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posted on
01/06/2007 11:16:56 AM PST
by
combat_boots
(The MSM: State run Democrat media masquerading as corporations)
To: Graymatter
Isn't spending the only thing the government can do? They goof up everything else they try.
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posted on
01/06/2007 11:43:17 AM PST
by
ClaireSolt
(Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
To: shrinkermd
It depends on which cultures are mixing. I find that certain culture work well together, others do not. Think of LA LA Land's gang wars.
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posted on
01/06/2007 11:45:07 AM PST
by
Porterville
(Destroy the Death Culture of Socialism)
To: JoeFromSidney
"You could trust members of your family because they were in the same boat with you. In the event of a coup or rebellion, they'd be punished whether or not they supported you, so they might as well support you." I remember that as well a couple of years later.
Also that families became linked to others, slightly extending the area of trust.
I get the same impression from middle eastern acquaintances today.
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posted on
01/06/2007 12:45:23 PM PST
by
norton
To: bkepley
I've spent a good deal of time in the South & obviously like it. Point was that there are always some people who simply don't like 'others' and there is always some way to express it...the ways vary from place to place and person to person.
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posted on
01/06/2007 12:47:57 PM PST
by
norton
To: shrinkermd
The lesson learned here is that rose-colored glasses are still a poor way to see what's in front of your very eyes.
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posted on
01/06/2007 12:57:12 PM PST
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: norton
It probably depends on where you live in the south and in what kind of town too. I moved from a city of about 40000 to a city of about 50000. Larger cities in the south are possibly not much different than larger cities in the north. There are also some notorious counties in the south but I suspect they are not the same as they were 20 or 30 years ago.
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posted on
01/06/2007 1:07:46 PM PST
by
bkepley
To: shrinkermd
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posted on
01/07/2007 2:06:35 AM PST
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
To: shrinkermd
Harvard study paints bleak picture of ethnic diversity Harvard finally learns what the rest of America has known for 45 years!
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posted on
01/07/2007 2:26:37 AM PST
by
Cowboy Bob
(Liberalism in a parasite that ALWAYS kills its host.)
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