I would much rather visit a country that had a single, traditional way of life (and that was accepting of tourists, naturally) than a melting-pot, catch-all nation with no distinct tradition.
Oh absolutely, communities need to have shared values and identities to be successful. But accepting differences of other communities in a connected world is how we succeed together as diverse nations, and how we can maintain peace with countries like Japan, Poland, etc.
But I agree 100% individual countries must retain their own identities, culture, etc.
But the left isn’t about that. They say they like diversity, while simultaneously requiring everyone be exactly the same worldwide. All culture must be the same. All politics must be the same. All interests must be the same. NO DIFFERENCES ALLOWED!
How can leftists simultaneously believe in "equality" and "diversity"? No... really? Equality means "be equal" and diversity means "be not equal"... This is why there is so much hypocrisy in leftist philosophy; it's hypocritical to the core.
The real truth is that neither equality nor diversity really matter too much. There are advantages to both, and disadvantages to both. Just let nature govern how people want to act. AKA: freedom.
Didn't you hear? Sweden didn't even have a culture until the Muslims started moving in.
I used to be (and to a degree still am) tolerant of the diversity-is-strength mantras when talking about the US. We're a nation of immigrants after all, and a shining beacon to the world of how a shared culture of freedom is stronger than ethnicity.
But then I saw what the globalists were doing to Europe, and realized this isn't about that at all. It's instead some kind of cultural Marxist poison that wants to mix everyone together so there's no way to tell which traditions are superior to others. It's not even about making immigrants assimilate and adopt the host culture. They don't even care about that.
Like why is England so obsessed with diversity? England for the Englishman - Italy for the Italian - any other way leads to slavery.
We're a melting pot, not a salad bowl. Our culture of freedom is derivative of English culture. We are an English nation. The point is that anyone from any nation and of any race can come here, but they still must assimilate to our culture and embrace our creed.
It wasn't always that way. America before the civil rights and the Hart cellar act, wanted just white people of good character to come. the melting pot theory is just what globalists want to use and destroy the identity of the nation; a nation can only be maintained by people of unique identity when they are mostly in the majority.
America was never meant to be very diverse so much that it would be weaponized against American citizens. There are great minorities and minority groups but the white Americans have to preserve their culture.
I know and I agree to an extent. But the key is not whether immigrants are white, but whether they will assimilate to our culture. It just so happens that people from European, historically Christian nations are more likely to assimilate to our Protestant English culture. Perhaps we should repeal Hart Cellar and go back to the national origins formula. But that didn't prohibit immigrants from non-European countries. It just kept immigration proportional to the current ethnic make up of the country. Ideally, we should only allow Christian immigrants. Though I don't think either of those would be politically possible today.
I took a trip to France a couple of years ago. Paris looks nice with all it’s older architecture (RIP Notre Dame though) but the atmosphere wasn’t great. Crows of loud protesters gathering everywhere, including the tourist areas, being loud and making it difficult to get around.
The best food i had in Paris was, no joke, from a Lebanese immigrant’s restaurant. Family-owned, relatively inexpensive, large delicious dishes. The French restaurants even not in tourist areas were overpriced and very heavy. The wine was fine. I give them credit for their cheese platters though.
The countryside had much better food in my opinion, and actually classically French instead of over-prepped or foreign.
I would much rather visit a country that had a single, traditional way of life (and that was accepting of tourists, naturally) than a melting-pot, catch-all nation with no distinct tradition.
I'm looking at you, France.
Oh absolutely, communities need to have shared values and identities to be successful. But accepting differences of other communities in a connected world is how we succeed together as diverse nations, and how we can maintain peace with countries like Japan, Poland, etc.
But I agree 100% individual countries must retain their own identities, culture, etc.
But the left isn’t about that. They say they like diversity, while simultaneously requiring everyone be exactly the same worldwide. All culture must be the same. All politics must be the same. All interests must be the same. NO DIFFERENCES ALLOWED!
How can leftists simultaneously believe in "equality" and "diversity"? No... really? Equality means "be equal" and diversity means "be not equal"... This is why there is so much hypocrisy in leftist philosophy; it's hypocritical to the core.
The real truth is that neither equality nor diversity really matter too much. There are advantages to both, and disadvantages to both. Just let nature govern how people want to act. AKA: freedom.
equality is a false god and diversity is not a strength.
Didn't you hear? Sweden didn't even have a culture until the Muslims started moving in.
I used to be (and to a degree still am) tolerant of the diversity-is-strength mantras when talking about the US. We're a nation of immigrants after all, and a shining beacon to the world of how a shared culture of freedom is stronger than ethnicity.
But then I saw what the globalists were doing to Europe, and realized this isn't about that at all. It's instead some kind of cultural Marxist poison that wants to mix everyone together so there's no way to tell which traditions are superior to others. It's not even about making immigrants assimilate and adopt the host culture. They don't even care about that.
Like why is England so obsessed with diversity? England for the Englishman - Italy for the Italian - any other way leads to slavery.
We're a melting pot, not a salad bowl. Our culture of freedom is derivative of English culture. We are an English nation. The point is that anyone from any nation and of any race can come here, but they still must assimilate to our culture and embrace our creed.
It wasn't always that way. America before the civil rights and the Hart cellar act, wanted just white people of good character to come. the melting pot theory is just what globalists want to use and destroy the identity of the nation; a nation can only be maintained by people of unique identity when they are mostly in the majority. America was never meant to be very diverse so much that it would be weaponized against American citizens. There are great minorities and minority groups but the white Americans have to preserve their culture.
I know and I agree to an extent. But the key is not whether immigrants are white, but whether they will assimilate to our culture. It just so happens that people from European, historically Christian nations are more likely to assimilate to our Protestant English culture. Perhaps we should repeal Hart Cellar and go back to the national origins formula. But that didn't prohibit immigrants from non-European countries. It just kept immigration proportional to the current ethnic make up of the country. Ideally, we should only allow Christian immigrants. Though I don't think either of those would be politically possible today.
I took a trip to France a couple of years ago. Paris looks nice with all it’s older architecture (RIP Notre Dame though) but the atmosphere wasn’t great. Crows of loud protesters gathering everywhere, including the tourist areas, being loud and making it difficult to get around.
The best food i had in Paris was, no joke, from a Lebanese immigrant’s restaurant. Family-owned, relatively inexpensive, large delicious dishes. The French restaurants even not in tourist areas were overpriced and very heavy. The wine was fine. I give them credit for their cheese platters though.
The countryside had much better food in my opinion, and actually classically French instead of over-prepped or foreign.
Seriously, try Japan.
I'm going to Taiwan (the Republic of China, formally) next year. Quite excited for it.