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What makes that more true today than, say, 40 years ago?

• seydor 1y ago
  online communication, city densities, very fast movement of people, immigration, inexistence of third spaces, helicopter parenting and so many other things
  • lostlogin 1y ago
    > migration What’s special about this? Are we in a period of particularly high migration? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_human_migration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_human_migration
    • inglor_cz 1y ago
      The British NHS now provides translators for about 200 languages for their patients. How many would they need in 1950? Twenty at most, even fewer outside London.
      • Dylan16807 1y ago
        If we use the 1950 standard of need, then they don't need anywhere near 200 today either.