Quote: (02-06-2014 02:45 AM)Hencredible Casanova Wrote:
Just as Native Americans live on reservations under their own norms or what Mormons have done in Utah, there are plenty of communities where Americans can live among relatively likeminded people. If not, there's always taking the overseas route as Roosh has done. Get in where you fit in.
Not sure the Native Americans are a good example. They were effectively subjugated and given the option to assimilate or have limited self-government in limited places they don't get to decide.
Also, Mormons aren't a great example either. They had difficulty to assimilating into American society at the time so they moved into the desert and built a new State from scratch. As mentioned in another thread, this pattern was similar for Germans as well, who mostly settled west of the original 13 colonies.
The question is, should people have a right to object if an ethnic minority overwhelms their community? The way the multicultural propaganda tends to work, you are discouraged from making that objection by being labeled a backwards, racist, xenophobic, faux-patriotic hillbilly. Especially from people living in SWPLvilles where their ethnic group has clear dominance or even complete homogeneity.
I think ethnicity can be examined in a few primary categories: language, religion, ancestry, and customs/values. It's not unreasonable to guess that groups with greater diversity between them along those dimensions will have more difficulty assimilating than groups who are fairly similar. Similarly, groups able to establish larger, more self-sufficient enclaves will feel less pressure to assimilate and adopt local values.
You can find small cities in the US with 4 Catholic Churches. But unless you ask someone whose been around for awhile, it may not be clear why there are so many. It was likely ethnic diversity: one church for the Irish, one for the French, one for the Italians, and one for the Polish. 4 distinct ethnic groups that each lived in their own communities and have their own culture. But they all shared the same religion and had many compatible customs, traditions, and values. Their genetic distance is also relatively small, and the enclaves aren't entirely self-sufficient and have to live and work with the others and are expected to uphold American values in public. In one generation they're all speaking English. That generation starts intermarrying and the genetic differences begin to fade. Customs and cultural traditions blend together, the shared American values override their ancestral values, and they effectively become a new ethnicity of "American Catholic." Furthermore, this blending happened in spite of widespread racism and xenophobia.
Meanwhile if you have a community with a sudden infusion of people who speak a different language, follow a different religion, have substantially different customs and traditions, are a different race, and form resilient self-sufficient enclaves capable of driving out the original inhabitants, you have an entirely different situation than the one I described above where four different compatible and equally-balanced communities blended into one.