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This is why I do not support multiculturalism. This is contentious today for a number of reasons. Moreso because the research is so divided. There are plenty of

This is why I do not support multiculturalism. This is contentious today for a number of reasons. Moreso because the research is so divided. There are plenty of studies which find in both directions. However, having lived in highly multicultural societies and more culturally homogenous societies, I firmly believe that it damages the social contract. When neighbours hold different and often incompatible values, not only are they less inclined to help each other as part of that unspoken social agreement, but they're more likely to vote for their own interests ahead of those of society at large. A nation needs a unified direction with unified values. Eating different food is fine. Disagreeing about core tenets of society like free speech, equal rights, and law and justice, is not.

wildrhythms 4y ago
Why have you chosen to inject 'multiculturalism' into a topic about conceptually 'winning' in society? Do you think maybe there is a common economic system underlying everything that enables the concept 'winning'?
- deltasevennine 4y ago
  Yeah, Money is the system. The more you have of it, the more you've won. It can be measured in terms of dollars or when you compare countries it's GDP or GDP per capita. You can get all moral about it with his opinion or her opinion or whatever and I get that happiness != money and all that jazz. But in general the one quantitative metric closest to the concept of "winning" is money.
- tjs8rj 4y ago
  The economic system as the root doesn’t make sense. Why is the decay so sudden despite capitalism dominating western markets for nearly half a thousand years? Why are there so many capitalist economies like Japan or Norway without these issues (almost at all)? Those 2 cannot be true if the blame is on capitalism.
  - deltasevennine 4y ago
    >Why are there so many capitalist economies like Japan or Norway without these issues (almost at all)? These economies lean towards socialism more then capitalism. In fact you can even call them socialist governments.

wildrhythms 4y ago

Why have you chosen to inject 'multiculturalism' into a topic about conceptually 'winning' in society? Do you think maybe there is a common economic system underlying everything that enables the concept 'winning'?

deltasevennine 4y ago
Yeah, Money is the system. The more you have of it, the more you've won. It can be measured in terms of dollars or when you compare countries it's GDP or GDP per capita. You can get all moral about it with his opinion or her opinion or whatever and I get that happiness != money and all that jazz. But in general the one quantitative metric closest to the concept of "winning" is money.
tjs8rj 4y ago
The economic system as the root doesn’t make sense. Why is the decay so sudden despite capitalism dominating western markets for nearly half a thousand years? Why are there so many capitalist economies like Japan or Norway without these issues (almost at all)? Those 2 cannot be true if the blame is on capitalism.
- deltasevennine 4y ago
  >Why are there so many capitalist economies like Japan or Norway without these issues (almost at all)? These economies lean towards socialism more then capitalism. In fact you can even call them socialist governments.