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Isn't this article just a big false dichotomy? It keeps talking of liberal and right-wing values, plural, but the demographic shift only involves one value - op
by car_analogy 5y ago
Isn't this article just a big false dichotomy? It keeps talking of liberal and right-wing values, plural, but the demographic shift only involves one value - open borders. There is nothing preventing a country from closing its borders to immigration, while adhering to other liberal values, such as feminism, a social safety net, universal healthcare, free schooling..
In fact, far from being opposed, public altruism and social policies are correlated with homogeneous societies:
Ethnologist Frank Salter writes: Relatively homogeneous societies invest more in public goods, indicating a higher level of public altruism. For example, the degree of ethnic homogeneity correlates with the government's share of gross domestic product as well as the average wealth of citizens. Case studies of the United States, Africa and South-East Asia find that multi-ethnic societies are less charitable and less able to cooperate to develop public infrastructure. Moscow beggars receive more gifts from fellow ethnics than from other ethnies [sic]. A recent multi-city study of municipal spending on public goods in the United States found that ethnically or racially diverse cities spend a smaller portion of their budgets and less per capita on public services than do the more homogeneous cities. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiculturalism#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiculturalism#Criticism