Political Interest wrote:An ethnically and religiously homogenous society is a blessing. I cannot understand why anyone would want to become multi-ethnic if one is homogenous. It does not bring any benefits and actually makes running a functional society much more difficult.
I think you are making an assumption that ethnic and religious tensions pose more threat to a society than class or political tensions. The EU membership referendum caused huge tension along those lines as well as stoking racist embers.
In less populist times, ethnic tensions were kept under wraps by the social stigma attached to overt racism. Religion is rapidly losing influence around the globe, particularly in Europe. Most Christians do little more than get married in a church and return annually on Christmas. Even Muslims are becoming nominal in their beliefs, mosque attendances are dominated by first generation immigrants or their parents.
Political Interest wrote:In 1950 no one thought that Englishmen would be a minority in London or that they would not be a clear and absolute majority in Birmingham.
I don't expect the man on the street to understand that cities are the only places likely to see "indigenous" (and I use that term reluctantly) populations become technical minorities. I live in a city with a 48% white population and it very difficult to tell the difference between that and a city with a 60% white population.
Political Interest wrote:Open door immigration has the potential to radically alter demography.
The only "open door" immigration we've had is with the EU, and if I'm not mistaken most of the EU population is white.
Political Interest wrote:Those who are anti-Muslim miss the entire point of the mass immigration question, namely, that this is not about saying a certain religious or ethnic group are bad people, but instead realising that multicultural societies are inherently unstable and dangerous.
I'm not sure where this inherently unstable thing is coming from. Do you have any data to back up your claims? There must be data out there.
Political Interest wrote:Ultimately their perceptions of the Islamic world are based on ethnocentrism. The failure to recognise that Asian and African Muslims behave in exactly the same way as we do results in either portraying them too negatively or infantilising them and taking a naive stance on the immigration question.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Are you saying that the West has been lumping in Asian and African Muslims with their Middle Eastern contemporaries?
Political Interest wrote:Preserving distinct cultures is desirable. New world cultures in places like Brazil, the United States and Australia are artificial constructions born out of mass settler colonialism and modernity.
Really, an appeal to "natural" societies. In the UK we are an artificial construct of Britons, Scots, Welsh, Irish, Angles, Saxons, Vikings, Huguenots, West Indians, Pakistanis, Indians etc. Each contributed to the UK and its contemporary culture.
I'd claim it's just as artificial to preserve "distinct cultures" than it is to have a USA/Brazil/Australia melting pot.
Political Interest wrote:I think that multiculturalism is better on a global scale. Instead of trying to make homogenous nations as diverse as possible it would be more sensible to celebrate culture internationally between nations, each preserving its distinct identity.
What? Balkanisation worked really well for Yugoslavia. We've only had the
one attempted genocide.
Political Interest wrote:Ethnicity plays a major role, if not the biggest role. Being an ethnic minority is not at all desirable. It creates many problems for those who have such a status. And that is what concerns me, the possibility that Europeans could become ethnic minorities as a result of mass immigration.
We are coming at this issue from incompatible worldviews. You are within the "distinct ethnicity has value" camp and I'm in the "ethnicity is arbitrary" camp. I imagine you would have a negative reaction to my belief that humanity would benefit from more ethnic homogeneity to eliminate ethnic tensions. I accept that I'm a globalist with decentralized anarchist intentions.
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