I think it's easier to discuss this notion mapped to other nations, because the set of assumptions and stigma around these issues specifically in the US makes i

I think it's easier to discuss this notion mapped to other nations, because the set of assumptions and stigma around these issues specifically in the US makes it very difficult to talk about. The US has also always been ethnically diverse, but diversity is not the same thing as to be devoid of an identity. Suffice it to say that US demographics are changing rapidly and many who see that as a good thing are going from acknowledging the change as a fact to actually openly celebrating it and predicting their own near-future cultural/political dominance based on the decline of whites to a minority status on national and state levels. Trying to point out how ... uncouth and toxic at best, this sort of rhetoric is, and the way it's heard in much of the country - simply trying to point out this interplay from an anthropologist on mars perspective - itself becomes almost impossible because accusations of racism fly immediately upon even bringing up that some people may be offended and angered when others celebrate the impending decline of their race and culture. Let's take a hypothetic Japan, or Ghana say, facing low native birth rates and a huge influx of white northwest European immigrants rapidly changing the demographics, culture and politics in their country. You can have whatever perspective you want on whether that new diversity and demographic replacement would be a beneficial thing in a given context, but regardless can you not see how elites celebrating that cultural/ethnic change in the faces of those confronting newfound minority status would often not be taken well? If you wanted to bring about a minority-Japanese nation of Japan, a minority-Ghanaian nation of Ghana, would you do it while also high-fiving over the decline of ethnically Japanese/Ghanaian people and their culture? Would you say "The reality is, it’s all over for the Japanese" and that their complaints about said fact is "poking a bear with a stick"? Might, just might, that serve to ratchet up tensions? Trump is sitting in office, and those of us on the left who try to point any of this utterly toxic dynamic playing out out are just routinely attacked as racist. It's a truly disheartening own-goal by those who claim to want this whole project to work out. You're not changing anyone's minds, just convincing them to keep their mouths shut and vote Trump.