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To: RDTF
Actually, I'll let sociologist Phil Zuckerman propose it. In "Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment," he tells of a magical land where life expectancy is high and infant mortality low, where wealth is spread and genders live in equity, where happy, fish-fed citizens score high in every quality-of-life index: economic competitiveness, healthcare, environmental protection, lack of corruption, educational investment, technological literacy ... well, you get the idea.

And all the people are white.

59 posted on 10/23/2008 8:51:10 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (Happiness is a choice!)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

American liberals look to the Scandinavian/Nordic countries as an example of a viable socialist system. And it is- the cradle-to-grave Scandinavian welfare system does work. But it is only viable in a homogenous society where the people share the same values of hard work, thrift and respect for the law. To a large extent, the success of the Scandinavian countries is based on culture, not the socialist system they have adopted.

Witness the problems places like Denmark and Sweden have had in integrating non-Western immigrants who do not share the same cultural values.


61 posted on 10/23/2008 9:01:38 AM PDT by Citizen Blade (What would Ronald Reagan do?)
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