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Vienna is always held up as a model. Also Berlin, until recently.
by HarryHirsch 3y ago
Vienna is always held up as a model. Also Berlin, until recently.
- kcplate 3y agoI am sure the chance for success is much greater in a society that is fairly homogenous.
- HarryHirsch 3y agoThere are large tracts of the US that are mostly ethnically homogeneous - most everywhere is not an urban Babel like NYC or SF. Meanwhile, the Habsburg monarchy was the prototype of a multiethnic state, and its capital was everything but uniform. Also Sanhedrin 38a: https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.38a.8 https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.38a.8
- breakyerself 3y agoThis is a gross way of saying we have too many minorities here to provide public services.
- kcplate 3y agoNo, that is not a fair characterization of what I said. Our diversity is a complexity that is not addressed for in the working model, so it’s not that we shouldn’t try…but we shouldn’t assume that a model that works well in one environment will work well in another, significantly different, environment.