You left out the largest problem. The news media.
Drama, pain, anger are tools of the trade. Why tell good things of cooperation, sacrifice, caring and sharing when blood is more intense an dramatic. They pander to rubbernecking, fear and self righteousness. What would happen if the world news media ignored the negative for two years and only showed positive?
It won’t happen but it would change things.
I do Think too many people were let in too fast without much thought involved, or at least withotu the right thoughts.
That said, Europé has been multiculty for a hellava long time. The Romans and those the conquered were radically different Cultures, and they were different from eachother, and those conquered Cultures lived on semi to fully underground and are having resurgences
Multiculturalism is much more the rule than the anti-multis want to notice. Shall we talk French English relations over the last thousand years? We are so used to what once were considered radically different Cultures that we say ,Oh they were really Close. That’s a glazed historical gaze. Multi can work, but you have to be savvy about it. Or grow up in the thick of it. A lot of the cities, going very far back in time, were multicultural, and this led to local and city and even human progress.
Exactly, conquered not amalgamated.
Even the French conquered the English, no amalgamation took place, 1066?
In both cases, this lead to one culture not many.
The USA’s motto has summed it up.
“e pluribus unum,” or “out of many, one.”
As I also said, the multiculture wént on after conquest. The romans wanted control and resourses. There were still a number of cultures, arguably even in Rome itself.
hardly. There were very big differences between the cultures, hence later problems.
Don’t get me wrong; in theory it sounds great, I’m just sayiing I have never seen it happen.
What later problems?
“Less segregated” is a very dubious term. A 2006 survey found the number of mixed neighbourhoods in Britain had risen from 864 to 1,070 during the 1990s, which was hailed by all and sundry as proof that segregation could be overcome in our utopia. What they actually showed was the early stages of ethnic movement, or “white flight” as it’s called.
blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwes … democracy/
“Racism is hardwired into the brain, say scientists - and it operates unconsciously.”
dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ … ng-it.html
Orginal source here: nature.com/neuro/journal/v15 … tml#access
“As a result of ‘white flight’, nearly half of ethnic minorities in the UK – about 4 million people – live in communities where whites make up less than half of the population.”
rt.com/news/uk-mass-immigration-segregation-873/
telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ … eport.html
No two cultures can live side by side, either they will segregate, lose their culture for that of the host or one will conqueror the other. People like to be with other people like them. Look at the world as it is and not as it should be.
Again, the news media is hugely responsible for rifts that exist. Instead of reporting on positive incidents they dwell on stories of anger and hate. This fans the flames of cultural separation. As an added bonus, news comes on when people are most likely to be consuming alcohol. People get off work already tired and possibly in an ill mood, they grab their favorite alcoholic beverage, turn on the boobtube to watch anger and hate aka , the news. Grab another drink and watch the same story repeated on another channel. Rinse repeat, rinse repeat. Underlying resentment and mistrust build up to an unhealthy attitude towards others.
Kriswest,
I agree with this too, if many things were different the world would be a better place. I am just thinking about what I see.
Natural is provoked or broke.
The media is in a unique position to do either, it chooses to provoke and people eat it up. They could calm the beast but, won’t. We humans at our core are no different than our cousin animals, we do love to pretend different. We are susceptible to training just like any other crittur.