If academic types produce such weak arguments, they really don't have anyone to blame for the loss of prestige and trust of academia but themselves. Almost any

If academic types produce such weak arguments, they really don't have anyone to blame for the loss of prestige and trust of academia but themselves. Almost anyone older than 50 is very aware of the fact that while there always has been some movement of ideas and people among the nations, the degree of those movements is much higher today, and the consequences much more massive. For example, presence of Islam in Western Europe used to be negligible until the early 1970s. Nowadays European cartoonists must tread lightly around possible blasphemy lest they want to be spectacularly murdered. Plenty of locally specific cultural traits have disappeared as well, or are at least endangered, the same way that bonobo or kakapo are. Food is starting to be startingly similar across the globe. If you look at a new glass-and-steel building at a photo, you can't tell if it is in Dubai or in Stockholm or in Nairobi. Go to Papua-New Guinea, switch on the radio and you will hear Ed Sheeran or Taylor Swift. Etc etc.