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If immigrants continue to refuse to assimilate, we'll be left with the United Silos of America, a disparate group of cultures with only their own interests at heart.
Exactly! Just a fractured, divided country with people who can't communicate or relate to each other. What's great about that?
You might want to read that article again. It's a thinly veiled way of still calling you a racist if you don't accept all of the refugees.
Yes, indeed.
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Well; if you're right, it blew up in the Huff Post's face.
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Clearly, the world of Herder's enclosed volksgeist, which still lives on in the reticent souls of those Europeans uneasy with the "plastic" reality of globalization, must give way to the world of Žižek.
Zizek argues that since Europeans created globalization, and since globalization is the free movement of money, goods and services, then people should be free to move as well, and Europeans should accept the refugees.
Note that Zizek wants to punish xenophobes as well as militant Muslims.
Why don't you address me directly, instead of in these little speeches of yours?
Are you afraid?
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Some people prefer to address issues, rather than individuals...particularly individuals who think it's all about them. And frankly, you add little of substance to the discussion because all you do is try to pit liberal against conservative; that's in almost every single post you make.
I think what you probably really meant to say was "Oh well. We're xenophobic then. Who cares."
But, taken at face value, your "So what" question is very interesting.
If you think about the list of foreign nations in which we intervene military or in other ways, it goes on forever. And we often get stuck in quagmires (such as Vietnam and Afghanistan) because we are intervening in countries about whose cultures we have no understanding. And I do think that is related to us being a xenophobic country.
I think what you probably really meant to say was "Oh well. We're xenophobic then. Who cares."
But, taken at face value, your "So what" question is very interesting.
If you think about the list of foreign nations in which we intervene military or in other ways, it goes on forever. And we often get stuck in quagmires (such as Vietnam and Afghanistan) because we are intervening in countries about whose cultures we have no understanding. And I do think that is related to us being a xenophobic country.
No, I mean "So what?" And I'd be interested in an answer. If a German says that he doesn't think that his country should take in a million or whatever refugees from Syria, and you shout "xenophobic!" at him, what's the point? I mean, is that an argument?
There are things that should be constant though. One of the main ones is work ethic since we cannot afford to subsidize those whose culture does not encourage education or work.
Then America needs to look itself in the mirror.
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