Dichotomy
Banned
Oh, are we starting a book club? Okay, so you read "Lost Discoveries" like I said, and I'll read "Who Gets In"? How about it?
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P.S. Opinions are best formed in your own head rather than copied out of persuasive books that sound intellectual.
It may surprise you, but I have already agreed with the core point you are trying to make of stricter integration and less fragmentation of culture and communities. It's just the way you go about doing it, and the silly accompanying remarks and essays that I find disagreeable.
I understand full where you are coming from: I am sitting with a copy of Quantum Leaps on my lap ( a book of 100 scientists who changed the world) and the author acknowledges that in antiquity it is very difficult to nail down dates and accomplishments because so much was lost. Clearly, China, Mesopotamia and other ancient cultures developed technologies and methods concurrently or before the rise of so-called Western cultures. But what did they do with it?
If attacking other people's positions makes you feel your position is stronger, then good for you. I could summarize my experiences with Canada's immigration system or give you the Reader's Digest version of Stoffman's book, but I think you may find it more intriguing to read it yourself. BTW, thanks for the tip on Lost Discoveries. I will pick it up.
I am not 'racist' in the purest definition of the word: there is only the human 'race' anyway. I am however, particularly proud of what has been accomplished by the human race in the past 100 years or so. There have been setbacks, to be sure, but the fact that the West has to guard it's borders while most other countries don't is proof enough that we are doing something right.
However, this modern 'success' could be very short-lived if we do not guard it more diligently: while we are busy apologizing and prostrating ourselves for what our ancestors did, we are in danger of losing our way.