Diversity Stress

[I am Groot]

The Left has been beating society over the head with the phrase "Diversity is our strength" for decades now, with no evidence whatsoever to support the belief, but an abundance of curses and insults directed at anyone who challenges it. Of course, the people pushing it are rarely those who have to deal with it. It's the peasants who have to live, day to day, amid a growing throng of people who barely speak their language, don't care about or for their culture, and in many cases, resent them due to decades of cultural propaganda in their homelands which blamed whites for all manner of social ills. Their former countries were poor because they were cheated, not because of corrupt, incompetent governments.

We go about our lives as usual, but the everyday interactions we have in the course of our days are now frequently with people who are not like us. Communication is sparse, confined to business. It often lacks the casual friendliness of dealing with people just like us. Half the time, their language skills are clearly not capable of much in the way of conversation, and in many cases they exude a strong of foreignness which suggests they'd have little interest anyway. The difference is notable. When we get a person on the phone without an accent, for example, or a repair person shows up who was born here, or an Uber driver who is white, we feel a bit of a sense of relief. Easy interaction often follows. It isn't just about language, nor at all about colour. The South Asian repair guy sent by your internet company can speak understandably, at least, but clearly doesn't give a damn about anything and is uninterested in your level of satisfaction. The bored bank teller might or might not understand you, but there's definitely no friendliness there, just script following. You'll exchange no banter with the people at the store, and usually sit quietly in the back of your uber or taxi since the driver can barely grunt a few words in English. In all of this the social in society is lost.

And you know things are only going to get worse because the political elites keep flooding us with foreigners for their own purposes, and the flood is far too large to integrate even if we urged them to, which the elites most definitely do not do. And as the minorities become the majority, and they don't think like you or have the same culture as you, what then? Then they vote for one of theirs to run things, like the minority majority did in the mayoral elections in New York and London. Then the state/provincial governments become like that, then the federal government. And none of them, competing as they do for tribal votes, give a damn about what you want or think. 

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[Michael Hardner]

You decry "no evidence" then proceed with anecdotal evidence and shadowy leagues of "elites".

 

There's certainly a conversation to be had, if people can leave their baggage outside.

[herbie]

The usual racist bullshit post.
I've ssn no evidence of 'foreigners' flooding us.  A handful of MAN and Bedford safari tpye trucks, but those are just tourists. Plenty of Americans, but they're not foreigners in my books.
Maybe you speak of the Ukranians taking refuge here who don't hide their identity inside cultural events only like the kids I grew up with in the 1960s? Or the Syrian who bought the Drug Store? Well he's not a foreigner anymore, he's one of us.

Perhaps it's the anti-immigrant fascists who've stalled the economy, cost thousands of educational layoffs and crippled universities ad schools of their funding that should go somewhere else.

[paxamericana]

42 minutes ago, herbie said:

Plenty of Americans, but they're not foreigners in my books.

Ha I knew it! Feelings mutual 51ster.

[paxamericana]

47 minutes ago, herbie said:

Perhaps it's the anti-immigrant fascists who've stalled the economy, cost thousands of educational layoffs and crippled universities ad schools of their funding that should go somewhere else.

You know you wouldn’t need to import people or votes if you all decided to have more children. Seriously, more babies means less need for immigrants. @Michael Hardner

[Michael Hardner]

43 minutes ago, paxamericana said:

  Seriously, more babies means less need for immigrants. @Michael Hardner

I know that.

Also the birthrate ticks up, I believe, at the higher end of the wealth curve.