I think the sourced, substantive OP and this left-wing reply really shows the intellectual imbalances that occur daily here on PF. Thank you for that.
Those Natives that liberals like so much certainly didn't practice too much tolerance towards their invaders. They fought many a bloody battle to repel them.
I voted Jews, mainly because they have been the prime movers behind most left-wing objectives in modern history, and "multiculturalism" is one of them. This demographic shifting is happening in almost every country where whites are the majority of the population. This is occurring in no other races homelands. This is genocide.
Who invented it? Not sure, but it was more than likely an Ivory Tower academic, liberal if not a social Marxist. Since multiculturalism creates separate cultures and values within a nation it creates numerous division. Where their is division, their will be conflict, creating insolvable social problems due to no assimilation. This is observable in multicultural nations where it is pushed. If other cultures assimilate, you lessen division, lessening conflict and minimizing problems, and problems cost money. We have seen quite a bit of stupidity from highly learned men, who lack wisdom. They may know that division would create problems, but their dream of many cultures inside of one nation, no assimilation for some reason emotionally appeals to them, and any social problems created, even if costly, is just not too much cost to them, to see their vision come to fruition.
The far left cheers on the genocide of an entire race of people, yet they still act like they have superior morality. It's important to understand their mindset. By the way, Guno, are you ethnically Jewish?
The invaders did all they could to exterminate the Natives so as to impose their brand of multiculturalism - just the Nazis did in East Europe and Russia.
With the murder counts committed by our current invaders, I can say the same thing. "Multiculturalism" leads to groups replacing other groups. It's inevitable. That's why it is not a good thing. Ask the Natives.
In what became the British colonies & then the US? The Native Peoples began by trying to incorporate the British colonists into the existing NP political arrangements - where the NP hadn't been ravaged by European diseases. The British colonists were late to the game, remember, & Spanish, French & Dutch explorers & colonists had already begun the transmission of diseases that the NP had no immunity to - from lack of exposure. The NP around the early British colonies on the US East Coast were either ramping up to massive die-offs from diseases, in the die-off, or just barely getting over it - which is why early British colonists were able to raid the NP's fields, villages & make off with stores of food - corn, mostly. Do modern Liberals love the NP? Everybody did, in the colonies & early US, @ some point. There were fraternal societies named after the tribes & nations, with titles & ranks, etc. modeled after them. Tobacco was taken up, corn cultivation, eventually the potato, & the early colonists learned from the NP what to plant, when, where, & to fish & hunt (the early British colonists weren't typically pioneers - they didn't usually have those skills). What I've read, once the British colonization efforts started to bring in lots of people, was that the tribes tried to defend their hunting terrain & their more-or-less territory from encroaching pioneers & colonizers. This quickly broke down into raids & attacks back & forth, & eventually into wars that the NP finally lost. Even in warfare, though, the NP welcomed genes from outside their tribe - Lewis & Clark mention in their trek to the West Coast that their Black slave was often invited to contribute to the passing tribes' genes. So yah, the tribes recognized superior - or @ least outsider - genes (I assume that was the motivation), but they resisted as much as possible being pushed off what they thought of as their traditional range, even if they didn't have the concept of land ownership. It's very interesting history, hardly taught in my time in public school, as I recall. & of course the themes of NP, Black slaves, indentured servitude, British transportation for life - all ring throughout our history still, even if unacknowledged.
I'll pass on empire, but you might want to look @ this, in terms of Chinese discoveries & innovations. The man who loved China : the fantastic story of the eccentric scientist who unlocked the mysteries of the Middle Kingdom / Simon Winchester, c2008, HarperCollinsPublishers, 509.2 Winc Subjects Needham, Joseph, -- 1900-1995. Scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography. Science -- China -- History. Summary The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Professor and the Madman" and "Krakatoa" returns with the remarkable story of the growth of a great nation, and the eccentric and adventurous scientist who defined its essence for the world. The extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China--long the world's most technologically advanced country. This married Englishman, a freethinking intellectual, while working at Cambridge University in 1937, fell in love with a visiting Chinese student, with whom he began a lifelong affair. He became fascinated with China, and embarked on a series of extraordinary expeditions to the farthest frontiers of this ancient empire. He searched everywhere for evidence to bolster his conviction that the Chinese were responsible for hundreds of mankind's most familiar innovations--including printing, the compass, explosives, suspension bridges, even toilet paper--often centuries before the rest of the world. His dangerous journeys took him across war-torn China to far-flung outposts, consolidating his deep admiration for the Chinese people. After the war, Needham began writing what became a seventeen-volume encyclopedia, Science and Civilisation in China.--From publisher description. Length xii, 316 pages : maps, photos, index, suggested further reading, appendices (My emphasis) A fascinating read. Appendix 1 is a list of Chinese inventions & discoveries, with dates of first mention Bellow, double-acting piston-tuned bronze - 6th century BC Blast furnace - 3rd century BC Cast iron - 5th century BC Cast iron - malleable - 4th century BC Distillation of mercury - 3rd century BC I picked these out as suggestive of when China started working metals. The list is much bigger, & the actual encyclopedia is much much bigger.
