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In spite of the problems this has caused, contemporary society will eventually have to accept the place genetics and tradition has in forming ethnic identities,

In spite of the problems this has caused, contemporary society will eventually have to accept the place genetics and tradition has in forming ethnic identities, if it intends to ever value distinct ethnicities.

Bran_son 3y ago
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- guhidalg 3y ago
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ChainOfFools 3y ago
I'm actually rather puzzled by what the dogmatic proponents of a multicultural population expect to be the end result, if not an inevitable convergence towards some bland, undifferentiated or trivially differentiated mean. If this were to happen worldwide, and geography thankfully makes that likely impossible, I'm not sure that an entire planet blanketed with a single mass media driven culture, with the inevitable extinction of hundreds of long cultural tails ( like endangered or near endangered languages today) answers the problems that proponents of unrestricted multiculturalism seem to be profess concern about. For there to be cultural variation at all, "original" or "native" sources of variation to provide inputs for the "multi" have to be preserved somehow. And it can't just be the cultural equivalent of farmers markets, reservations set up part time on half a city block, on land that 50 years prior was not city, but hundreds of acres of actual farmland and farmers tending it.
- guhidalg 3y ago
  > If this were to happen worldwide, and geography thankfully makes that likely impossible That's why this is not going to become a real issue. It's always a fake issue that nationalist can draw on to get people agitated. Even in the most multi-cultural places in the world, people will self-segregate to be with those that look and think like them. We simply shouldn't ostracize or shame the small minority that branch out of their genetic in-group.

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In spite of the problems this has caused, contemporary society will eventually have to accept the place genetics and tradition has in forming ethnic identities,

by wsgeorge 3y ago

Bran_son 3y ago
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- guhidalg 3y ago
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ChainOfFools 3y ago
I'm actually rather puzzled by what the dogmatic proponents of a multicultural population expect to be the end result, if not an inevitable convergence towards some bland, undifferentiated or trivially differentiated mean. If this were to happen worldwide, and geography thankfully makes that likely impossible, I'm not sure that an entire planet blanketed with a single mass media driven culture, with the inevitable extinction of hundreds of long cultural tails ( like endangered or near endangered languages today) answers the problems that proponents of unrestricted multiculturalism seem to be profess concern about. For there to be cultural variation at all, "original" or "native" sources of variation to provide inputs for the "multi" have to be preserved somehow. And it can't just be the cultural equivalent of farmers markets, reservations set up part time on half a city block, on land that 50 years prior was not city, but hundreds of acres of actual farmland and farmers tending it.
- guhidalg 3y ago
  > If this were to happen worldwide, and geography thankfully makes that likely impossible That's why this is not going to become a real issue. It's always a fake issue that nationalist can draw on to get people agitated. Even in the most multi-cultural places in the world, people will self-segregate to be with those that look and think like them. We simply shouldn't ostracize or shame the small minority that branch out of their genetic in-group.