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Does Multiculturalism Work?

Paulos23

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No.

There is no country in the world where multiculturalism was successful. And countries where the multiculturalism is the most spread are internally messed up the most.

Some cultures/races seem to be compatible (for example whites and asians), some seem to be incompatible.
There is one, but mostly because it is so large that many of the cultures are separated by geography. It is only in the age of mass media and the internet that those geographical boundaries have been breached to make it look like it is not working.
 
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No, the multiculturalism today is of the evil sort, that says we have to accept all faiths, and everything the left pushes, or we are bad and unloving. Forcing people together will always have a bad outcome. I don't fellowship with liberal darkness. :sigh:

We love our neighbors even though they are wrong about things. We are not endorsing or embracing their wrongs, but simply loving them --

"Love your neighbor as yourself" -- even though they are sinners!

We are to show them Christ in us by loving more widely and well than many of the lost do.

When you love your friend, you are not endorsing or saying that the wrongs they have done or do today are good. You are not saying their sins are good actions, when you love your own friend.
 
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I'm saying we don't need a left party like today that don't value America and law and order, the America that allows everyone to forge their own dream, not what the Government mandates or deems to be correct thinking and living.
Is it outside the realm of possibility that “a left party” loves our country too, and that differences in political thought are “good”?
 
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No, we don't need the left of today. It is totally non- American.

I'm saying we don't need a left party like today that don't value America and law and order, the America that allows everyone to forge their own dream, not what the Government mandates or deems to be correct thinking and living.

I don't think you have a very good grasp of the true history of ideals espoused during the founding of America. If I had to guess, you've been propagandized by the right to believe that the ideals espoused in the southern colonies were shared by all of the colonies.
 
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I’m a pacifist.
Okay, I’ll probably die, but I think that’d be better than existing in a country where its citizens are fighting a war with each other.
Please enjoy your “war”.
No you wont die.

Its a bunch of hyperventilating brought on by too much exposure to Fox and everything right of that.
 
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No you wont die.

Its a bunch of hyperventilating brought on by too much exposure to Fox and everything right of that.

Politics in the USA has been tribalized mostly by the radical right who have tried to portray liberals and leftists as malevolently stupid. All sides are actually patriots but choose different ways to express that patriotism. Argue if you will about policy but keep personal insult the heck out of it.
 
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No you wont die.

Its a bunch of hyperventilating brought on by too much exposure to Fox and everything right of that.
People will die because of this hyperventilating. People already have.
 
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People will die because of this hyperventilating. People already have.
Yeah, people at the edges are getting all worked up, especially the ones on this new right wing red meat only diet. But Pommer doesnt need to worry about the new "civil war".
 
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Culture is not an unchanging, self-existing reality. Multiculturalism itself is thousands of years ago, going back to the Persian empire, if not earlier.
 
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Yeah, people at the edges are getting all worked up, especially the ones on this new right wing red meat only diet. But Pommer doesnt need to worry about the new "civil war".
I really hope for at least a couple of mass shootings. 2020 has been a bit of a drought on that end.
 
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