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I suspect that homogeneity and culture explain why they didn't blow all of their oil money in boom times like other oil producing nations. I wish Americans cou
by bwd 17y ago
I suspect that homogeneity and culture explain why they didn't blow all of their oil money in boom times like other oil producing nations. I wish Americans could see the same type of restraint in their politicians.
- stcredzero 17y agoWhat effect does homogeneity have?
- gojomo 17y agoHomogeneity makes it easier to build a governing consensus; people can believe there's an optimal policy benefiting everyone, "because we're all so alike", rather than a zero-sum contest between disparate groups.
- berntb 17y agoNorway has gotten quite a lot of immigrants the last couple of decades and homogeneous might not be a key word anymore. A couple of friends of mine are Bangladeshi academics. They are the nicest, "squarest" and most hard working nerds I've ever met. I had lots of fun sending them a reference to the news last year -- about problems in Oslo with Bangladeshi street gangs... :-) But sure, the problems with planning and controlling a society isn't proportional to the population, more like the population squared. It should also be less problems with fewer variables.