[quote=FlyerInHi]Ca renter, the data doesnt square with your point of view.
Since the dawn of civilization, mutil cultural societies where there is a free flow of commerce, people and ideas always had higher growth and higher wealth.
The problems are apartheid-like or segregational systems where there are different classes of citizens (de jure or de facto). By citizens I mean everyone who lives in a community.
That’s why we need to address structural problems where certain groups have outsize power over other communities.
And freedom means that your neighbor has the rIght to jack up his truck on cinder blocks if he so feels like. For those who don’t like that there are HOAs.[/quote]
There is a difference between “growth and wealth” (which can be found in places with institutional apartheid, BTW) vs. having a cohesive society without civil strife. I agree with you that apartheid-like, tyrannical socio-political systems cause tremendous problems. Apartheid tends to come about when “foreigners” take over the resources of a native population, and they use race/ethnicity/religion as a way to discriminate against the indigenous people or long-time native residents.
One could argue that “foreigners” coming into Sweden, The Netherlands, France, the U.S., etc. are demanding resources from those who’ve set up a system that works very well *if* everyone works together toward the same goals. What if these “foreigners” not only refuse to work together to make these systems work, but they actually begin to dismantle and/or overburden the very systems that made these places such good places to live in the first place? Do you think they should be allowed to do that? Do you think that the protestations of those who’ve worked for generations toward these beneficial social/political/economic systems are “wrong” or “racist” because they want to defend their them?
