Originally posted by Anonymouse
That is my point you marry someone who is more like you culturally than otherwise, and language is the biggest marker of culture.
There are no books that say "multicultural empires always fail", that is something that one can learn from history by looking in between the pages. Once you understand history, and how it works ( the process ) you can easily see this too.
And what is this individual we are altruistic toward has our own genes but another way of rephrasing that we share likenesses and seek those that share the same, since by far the Swede has more in common with the Swede. Your type of relativism and thinking implies there are no such things as cultures, whereas we clearly see marked racial and cultural differneces. If what you are saying is true, there would have been a monoculture on earth long ago.
My type of thinking does not imply the non-existence of culture. I have no idea how you are making that leap.
The first people you should say that too is the Mexicans. The point is just because you think that should happen, does not mean it is going to happen, numbers and demographics are everything and the centrifugal forces of history are playing about.
You know I am more "American" than many "Americans" are. I am a hardocre laissez-faire capitalist. I speak better English than most, and I am more true to the original principles of a Republic, than most "Americans", yet at the same time, I don't feel that bond or being drawn to it, as I do with my Armenian heritage.
But the more proper question is, how have the political and economic changes occured in relation to the changing face of America? What will happen when in 2050 there is a majority non-white America?
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