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I assume then from the above attack on immigration and diversity you will be striving to give all USA territory back to Native American Indians. Or does the past couple of hundred years of invasion and occupation by white Europeans not count? Don't get me wrong, as we in the UK are having our own big problems with illegal immigration, economic migrants etc difficult questions have to be asked. However many of the arguments of your speakers are spurious. For example that diverse civilizations always fail/self destruct. It is actually that ALL civilisations eventually fade away, die or assimilated into others, even the most ruthlessly non-diverse. This is always due to a mix of economic, social, military and climactic influences. On the other hand one of the most widespread and influntial cultures the world has known is british/Anglo. Yet this is a melting pot of thousands of years of diversity.Celtic mixed with saxon, angles, Gaulish, Scandanavian and mid european, regular colonisation and mixed marriages politically and socially. And all this in addition to the basic four way tension between England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Yet with all this Diversity and multiculturism the biggest Empire the world has ever known was created and, now post-empire it is still a powerful global culture. Divesity isn't 'bad' for societies. Multi-culturism isn't 'bad' for a country. 'Bad' individuals are bad for a country. 'Cruel' practices are bad for society. It is the actions, the practices, the ignorance, not the principles of diversity we need to attend to.
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