Diversity is our weakness

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  1. Bluesguy

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    We held tight because we came together as one not keeping the divides that are being pushed now.
     
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    LaRaza...to keep the blood lines pure.

    May explain why Mexicans are the way they are, extremely tribal.

    Self apartheid, refusing to live among the Anglo Americans and refusing assimilation and adopting the established American culture, customs, traditions and one common language by living in barrios.
     
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    Quite true. I want to blame it all on the media and politicians, but we're the ones who get sucked into the all this hyper-partisan nonsense. The question is, can we overcome our own weaknesses?
     
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    Self apartheid? That's a new one.
    I'd say that like most other minorities, grouping together is in some ways a form of self protection from the refusal of the majority to accept those groups and allow them to assimilate. To a large extent, the Irish did it, the Germans did it, the French did it....
     
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    Not if we allow the to keep pushing these divides and victimhoods.
     
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    You had ethnic immigrant neighborhoods in America but most immigrants assimilated and moved on into the interior of America after one generation and a new ethnic group would move in that neighborhood and again move on after one generation.

    Look at East L.A., it was an Italian immigrant neighborhood for a generation or two then Polish immigrants, Eastern Jewish immigrants, Japanese immigrants then Mexican immigrants. But being indoctrinated in the La Raza movement the Mexicans never moved on and stayed and and East L.A. has been a barrio ever since, self apartheid.
     
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    Diversity is only a problem for the GOP.
     
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    Yes I believe diversity works fine when there is affluence and plenty of resources, the problems start with increased competition and scarcity of resources. So if you like your multicultural society make sure you don't run out of money or things will go bad very quickly.
     
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    Fair point. But immigrants have always sort of been ghettoized, right? It happened to the Irish and Germans in turn.

    Couple that with failed war on drugs policy in Latin America that have created huge profits for criminal cartels, and it is understandable that marginalized immigrants from there would stuggle to escape a culture of crime and violence.

    That being said, I think given a chance assimilation is happening at it's own speed and policies of inclusion make it easier to acheive prosperity.
     
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    There isn’t a single job that an illegal does that couldn’t be accomplished by a citizen. And why haven’t Hispanics been able to make any of their own countries prosperous? How many generations have passed while Latin American countries have gone mostly nowhere? 3rd world to barely 1st world. Why do they need generations to prosper here when they couldn’t do it in their home countries?

    What makes our country so special? You know the answer.
     
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    You don't run out of money if you keep producing it and we did that best as e pluribus unum not e unum pluribus as we are headed.
     
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    Well weren't the Romans right? Much of the Roman downfall was due to inviting Germanic tribes to settle in Italia, and creating a populace that was loyal only to the highest bidder.
     
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    it's a problem for all societies as the article in the OP pointed out.

    Your mindless adherence to ideology does not reflect well on your acceptance of facts.
     
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    Diversity built the USA.
     
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    And yet, the world has grown in population while at the same time decreased in wars. Hmm.
     
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    how about an example of non diversity working? Where is peace and harmony existing?
    And what make it so peaceful and harmonious?
     
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    When has the USA been 90% white?
    Remember, non whites were here 1st. Non whites were brought in almost immediately to be slaves.
    So point to a time the USA has be 90% white? I say never.
    It was peaceful in your world, when whites were killing off all others or enslaving them. IMO.
     
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    The Nordic nations before the diversity mania is an example of non diversity working

    The Nordic nations after the diveristy mania is an example of diversity failing
     
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    LOL. The minorities were here, some of them. We called them American Indians at one time.
    Actually, early on, the whites were the minorities. But tricked and killed the majority to establish a different majority.

    While it is difficult to determine exactly how many Natives lived in North America before Columbus,[6] estimates range from a low of 2.1 million[7] to 7 million[8] people to a high of 18 million.[9]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas
     
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    In what way?
    And what do you know about the history of Nordic nations?
     
  21. Pycckia

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    In 1950 the population was 89.5% white.
     
  22. Pycckia

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    In everyway,

    more than you, apparently
     
  23. dairyair

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    Ridiculous. Most 1st generation immigrants from Europe who didn't speak English, never learned English. But maybe for a few words.
     
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    Proof. LInk.
    If your opinion is true, you have 1 yr out of 300 as USA?
    And 1 yr out of 10,000 or more that people have been on the land now called USA.
     
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    Sure you do.
    That's why you offered up Zero, NADA, Nothing. As proof of your opinion.

    I rest my case.
     
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