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Why not? I mean, it's immoral, but looking at history, forced assimilation has succeeded many times - it's just that it takes a lot of time (century+, certainl
by PeterisP 5y ago
Why not?
I mean, it's immoral, but looking at history, forced assimilation has succeeded many times - it's just that it takes a lot of time (century+, certainly more than any individual's lifetime) and when it does, we now think of the assimilated people as an inherent part of the assimilating nation. The currently visible examples are just exceptions, either the ones where it has failed as the "assimilating empire" became weak and assimilation stopped/reversed, or the cases where it's recent and ongoing and won't succeed until after I'm dead (but that doesn't mean it won't succeed).
- endisneigh 5y agoChina at some point or another will need immigrants. Assimilation might be effective, but it also might deter immigration. That being said it’s a very productive and lucrative country for poor people in the region so maybe it’s not that big of a deal.
- kristofferR 5y agoChina's demographic problems are still decades away though from being so problematic that they'll consider immigration, there probably won't be Uyghurs left by then.
- throwaway75 5y agoA good example of this success, is the muslims of India today. A successive train of islamic invaders have forced multiple generations to take up the religion. Invaders raised towers of skulls of the "kafirs" they killed, and imposed "jizya" (a kafir-only tax) on generations of them. The result today is a large population of their descendants that is completely assimilated in islamic culture.