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> The word "multiculturalism" is often said with positive affect but the culture they're talking about is clothes, food, holidays etc.
> shallow culture
> But if you talk about ideas toward democracy, gender equality, war, medical experiments ... people HATE variety of culture.

This is a little bit out of date already - it's a professor saying it - but it's still a valid point, all the people who "want multiculturalism" don't actually want it...

The problem as defined is that culture is drifting off a cliff - evidenced by the falling birth rate, but also many other things. There's one big mono-culture and it's failing.

> One idea would be to break global communication
> Just have each county have their own religion and so on, and they can trade but they cannot talk with the rest of the world
> That would be a plausible route, but nobody likes this.

> The thing that most people think is the most precious thing they have,
> which is their sense of morality that they inherited from their culture
> is exactly the thing that you can't trust.
> And that's a really big ask for most people.

> The rise of rapid cultural shift coincides with the rise of high-school
> Most cultural shifts are driven by youth movements
> Before high-school, youth would mingle with older people and assimilate culture from the older generation

> Much of the dysfunction of our culture are in places where we don't allow Capitalism to rule
> Because Capitalism is one thing that still works and evolves pretty well - in that it kills off the firms that are not eugenic

> Unix is just the C compiler's way of reproducing itself 😂