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sorry, you're basing the entire dismissal of a posit by our OP that offers massive economic benefits, death of a sordid black market and freedoms for all becaus
by Quarrelsome 8y ago
sorry, you're basing the entire dismissal of a posit by our OP that offers massive economic benefits, death of a sordid black market and freedoms for all because of an article where someone removed a statue of a woman?
People would have to arrive, in numbers for a long time, have kids, retain the culture perfectly in that regards as it blends into US cultures and then override the existing culture to do so. That's like 100 years in a vacuum. That's like imagining you'd see to eye with your ancestors from 1918. Ya think?
- nine_k 8y agoThe melting pot of the US worked wonders in many regards. But its capacity is limited; the rate of arrival, compared to the country's population, has an upper bound when melting still works fir the newly arrived, when cultural transfer is still seen as valuable, as opposed to just keeping to live the way they used to, and failing to blend in enough as not to pose serious problems.
- Quarrelsome 8y agoI don't think any of those concepts have established enough mathematical proofs to discuss with such confidence.
- nine_k 8y agoIf 1M people of culture A arrive to a territory inhabited by 1 person of culture B, which culture will prevail? With a high confidence, A. If 1 person of culture A arrives to a territory inhabited by 1M people of culture B, which culture will prevail? With a high confidence, B. If we assume more or less continuous, non-chaotic behavior of this function, the range of A/B ratios where the change is hard to predict must be somehow narrower than [1/1M .. 1M], likely closer to [0.5 .. 2]. This is not a mathematical proof, of course, just an illustration. Mathematics is only possible where axioms hold; in human world, very-very few, if any, axioms ever hold.