I actually see the shift to nationalism as a bit frightening. Nationalistic populations are easier to drag into imperialistic pursuits and wars in general.
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The cultural destruction that you suggest is occurring is more because of the internet than for any other reason. The world has become a much smaller place and cross-cultural contamination is happening exponentially. What is culture but customs, morals, codes and traditions from a specific time and place. All of these things change as people are exposed to all of those things from around the world. Why is (American style) Halloween and Thanksgiving now celebrated in Europe? Answer because American culture has contaminated European culture through the media, arts and internet. Why do the Brits now call Father Christmas "Santa Claus". Same reason. Popular culture is drowning out all other culture. If anything most cultures are being overcome by American culture all over the planet and that has been happening for the last 60 years. It's just most noticable in English speaking countries. However now, with the internet, it is spreading more rapidly to non-English speaking countries, especially since most children around the world are required to learn English as a second language.
A little flow of immigrants from the ME isn't having any major effect on cultures. Cultures are being assimilated via the world wide web. Unless what you are really talking about is genetic homogeneity. However, from a genetic and biological point of view, genetic homogeneity is the best way to reinforce all of those recessive genes that are responsible for life-threatening genetic malformations, gene-based disease and low birth rate. Stagnant populations suffer from the greatest number of these issues. Farmers figured this out a very long time ago with their livestock.
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In European countries they are now less worried about the Internet, McDonalds and Starbucks.
They are worried about rampant rape, crime, and terrorism brought into Europe with the migrant crisis.
European elites spent a couple of years telling people to forget decades of feminist gains and understand their new neighbors. Recent elections that have gone to nationalists are waking the elite up. But not fast enough.
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Not sure if this will matter but I heard a report on BBC this morning that two of the French candidates, Lapen being one of them are in some sort of trouble for campaign financing or something like that
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I get the idea of not bring the wolves into the sheep pasture. That's really not happening in America. The Euros were a bit negligent in that respect, but they had issues prior to all of this as well when they sought to bring in cheap labor from third world countries to fill jobs that no one else wanted for the price that industry was willing to pay. They created ghettos of second class residents who were originally supposed to be temporary workers, but were granted citizenship, but have nevertheless received 2nd class treatment at the local level. Perhaps some of the refugees are the bad guys, but some of the bad guys are also coming from the ghettos that they created in places like France and Germany. No doubt the political rhetoric in those communities is affecting the newcomers as well. Certainly so long as those temp workers/immigrants fulfilled the need for cheap labor, it was all good, but since automation has created an unemployment problem in those communities, now no one wants them and the refugees are just the icing on the cake.
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"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi