No. You mean to say: “Why? Because there is a mix of cultures that have not tried to understand each other and (due to their ignorance) fear and distrust each other.” This is not “multiculturalism.”

ncloud said “The fact that we welcome people from every nation to become American citizens does not mean that we are welcoming them to establish islands of their own culture within the American border.”

Establishing islands of their own culture isn’t the problem. It’s the isolationist nature that these islands sometimes have. It seems to me that overcoming this isolationist nature is what “multiculturalism” is about.

In any case, I’m not convinced that the chaos at the give-away had ANYTHING to do with multiculturalism however you choose to define it.

No. You mean to say: “Why? Because there is a mix of cultures that have not tried to understand each other and (due to their ignorance) fear and distrust each other.” This is not “multiculturalism.”

ncloud said “The fact that we welcome people from every nation to become American citizens does not mean that we are welcoming them to establish islands of their own culture within the American border.”

Establishing islands of their own culture isn’t the problem. It’s the isolationist nature that these islands sometimes have. It seems to me that overcoming this isolationist nature is what “multiculturalism” is about.

In any case, I’m not convinced that the chaos at the give-away had ANYTHING to do with multiculturalism however you choose to define it.

It would lead to anyone saying something out of the ordinary to be shunned from the culture. For an intellectual existence I think that there needs to be a certain level of disagreement and mistrust. If you go along with everything everyone is saying you’re obviously not thinking for yourself – and I think that is plainly dangerous.

It would lead to anyone saying something out of the ordinary to be shunned from the culture. For an intellectual existence I think that there needs to be a certain level of disagreement and mistrust. If you go along with everything everyone is saying you’re obviously not thinking for yourself – and I think that is plainly dangerous.

If anything this behavior is a symptom of unbridled Nanny Statism. This sort of thing wouldn’t happen in a capitalist society.

Personally, I’m not a true-blood capitalist, but I do think that anarcho-capitalism is probably a better system than what we have:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism

I’m just tired of people labeling stupid, irrational behavior as “capitalism”.

Stupid, irrational behavior is just that, and doesn’t have anything to do with anarcho-capitalism.

If anything this behavior is a symptom of unbridled Nanny Statism. This sort of thing wouldn’t happen in a capitalist society.

Personally, I’m not a true-blood capitalist, but I do think that anarcho-capitalism is probably a better system than what we have:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism

I’m just tired of people labeling stupid, irrational behavior as “capitalism”.

Stupid, irrational behavior is just that, and doesn’t have anything to do with anarcho-capitalism.

I’m not sure if you guys have heard about the recent study done by a very liberal group about trust among people in America. It was a huge blow to the liberal group who did the study, as it went exactly opposite of what they thought the ideal was.

They polled for how much people trust their neighbors in various parts of the country. Homogeneous areas up north and in the midwest scored really high; the place where I grew up scored really low. Why? Multiculturalism.

The fact of the matter is that the Chinese tend to not like Mexicans. Mexicans tend to not like blacks. Blacks tend to not like Chinese. Etc. Etc. And because these groups are growing in size very rapidly and are increasingly able to speak their own languages and have their own infrastructures the problem is only going to get worse.

What the study showed, to the horror of the liberals, was that multiculturalism hurts society in a very serious way. It erodes unity. That’s my entire point here. Balkanism is bad, and it’s on its way to destroying us. But we’re too stupid to figure it out. We’d rather just call the people who HAVE figured it out racists.

I’ll find the study and add it here, but it was talked about on NPR extensively; you should be able to find it there.

I’m not sure if you guys have heard about the recent study done by a very liberal group about trust among people in America. It was a huge blow to the liberal group who did the study, as it went exactly opposite of what they thought the ideal was.

They polled for how much people trust their neighbors in various parts of the country. Homogeneous areas up north and in the midwest scored really high; the place where I grew up scored really low. Why? Multiculturalism.

The fact of the matter is that the Chinese tend to not like Mexicans. Mexicans tend to not like blacks. Blacks tend to not like Chinese. Etc. Etc. And because these groups are growing in size very rapidly and are increasingly able to speak their own languages and have their own infrastructures the problem is only going to get worse.

What the study showed, to the horror of the liberals, was that multiculturalism hurts society in a very serious way. It erodes unity. That’s my entire point here. Balkanism is bad, and it’s on its way to destroying us. But we’re too stupid to figure it out. We’d rather just call the people who HAVE figured it out racists.

I’ll find the study and add it here, but it was talked about on NPR extensively; you should be able to find it there.

If anything, this behavior you note is a symptom of unbridled capitalism; this type of thing wouldn’t happen in an anarchistic society.

Personally, I’m not a true-blood anarchist, but I do think that anarcho-syndicalism is probably a better system than what we have:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalist

I’m just tired of people labeling stupid, irrational behavior as “anarchy!”. Stupid, irrational behavior is just that, and doesn’t have anything to do with anarchy.

Thanks :)

If anything, this behavior you note is a symptom of unbridled capitalism; this type of thing wouldn’t happen in an anarchistic society.

Personally, I’m not a true-blood anarchist, but I do think that anarcho-syndicalism is probably a better system than what we have:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalist

I’m just tired of people labeling stupid, irrational behavior as “anarchy!”. Stupid, irrational behavior is just that, and doesn’t have anything to do with anarchy.

Thanks :)