omg u will never believe what happened when we let immigrants into the countrypic.twitter.com/BmWK5Ywnoe
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This is a fun way to say "We have lots of bigots who hate immigrants for no good reason, and I'd rather pander to them than improve every non-bigot's life"
* Immigrants come, demonstrably improve economy * Trust is lowered because bigots lash out, creating divisive politics "Let's blame the immigrants for this situation and not the bigots" is a galaxy brain take
I'm not talking about political divisiveness. I'm talking about a society where there's implicit trust and shared conventions besides butt-chugging Netflix
The shared conventions we had are currently being shredded the fastest by those who are most anti-immigrant, so I'm really not sure of your point. The US in particular does an amazing job of assimilating and Americanizing immigrants.
The shared conventions of anglo-protestant settler culture are being shredded by people who are skeptical of a historically new open-borders fundamentalism? Or you men conventions that only go back to the 70s?
"The shared conventions of anglo-protestant settler culture" is a meaningless concept. There were many different distinct protestant settler cultures with WILDLY different conventions. There is no single 'protestant settler culture'.
The idea that what makes America strong is some 1600's strain of Super English Protestant Thought is frankly laughable. As though waves of Slavic/Irish/Italian/Catholic/German, etc immigration hadn't completely changed the country 100x over before the 1950s even began.
Nativists have been saying that immigration will Ruin American Culture and Certainly Lead To Out Downfall for hundreds of years. They've always, always been wrong. America is great at taking immigrants and making them into Americans who share our values.
I'm not sure immigration is properly identified as the cause, compared with postmodernism and continental philosophy.
Denmark has those kids of philosophy and yet its society is pretty damn cohesive
It's also homogeneous and fairly sclerotic due to extreme pressure to conform to social expectations. Economically, it's highly dependent on a single company (Maersk), and not very innovative. I think I'll take the strawberries.
Sure, some personality types do well in atomization and normlessness. Others don't. What's happening is that you're removing the possibility for others to have comfort and joy
@ne0liberal's utopia will be complete once we evolve into 'homo economicus'
Eat a gun, unemployed skinnyfat "blogger".
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