A provocative title for a reasonable thesis:https://www.econlib.org/you-have-no-right-to-your-culture/ …
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Because culture is other people, so "cultural protection" is offense, not defense.
Your arguments are usually strong and compelling, but I just don't get this one. Culture isn't just ideas, it's also norms, institutions, coordination devices, etc. The US Constitution is part of culture. Do we have no right to defend the Constitution?
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"Culture" is a fuzzy ordinary-language word. You can stretch the meaning to include political structures, but what people normally have in mind are lifestyles, family structure, religion, diet, entertainment, etc. And that's how I'm using the word.
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Whatever 'culture' means, can we agree that cultures willing to protect themselves will usually last longer than those that aren't willing to protect themselves? The game theoretic outcome seems obvious.
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@bryan_caplan just say that other people participating are a necessary condition of a culture, and as far as you can't control them, you can't control whether a culture changes? You can lead the people to water but you can't make them drink from your cultural well... -
Taxes are part of culture. Can you make people pay taxes?
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Let’s say, that with open borders, 200+ million Chinese move into the 47 new megacities that are then built by the Chinese government and they all have a preference for a repressive technocracy.
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With their political influence they do away with liberal democratic notions such as academic freedom and the George Mason Econ faculty is reduced to teaching Neo-Xi Jinping Theory.
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I have a feeling whatever Bryan is identifying as 'culture' is phenomenologically different from 'culture' in commom parlence. Seems like his blog is mostly immigration/people related.
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They way I understood Bryan is that you aren't allowed to demand (offence) people in the 21st century to have the same culture as the '90s you enjoyed, but you can sell (defence) your way of life to others and compete in the cultural marketplace.
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I think he's actually making a very strong case for defending culture. If you do not do so whilst other people end up spreading their culture instead, you have no one to blame but yourself and you cannot demand people to switch back to how things used to be.
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I think the argument is against exclusivity. You do not get to prevent others from using the US constitution or basing their own institutions off the American model. Same with other ephemeral aspects of US or any other culture. Cultures are made by borrowing.
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