RE: Trump Calls For Moratorium on Muslim Immigrants
December 8, 2015 at 8:40 am
(This post was last modified: December 8, 2015 at 8:59 am by Anomalocaris.)
What bullshit
1. They didn't build a wall around their country, they built one to the north of their country. There were continuous and vigorous trade and contact to the east, south, and west during the entire time the wall existed. Theirs was the largest trading nation in the world for much of period between 400AD -1600AD.
2. To the degree they seem homogenous now, it wasn't because of lack of immigration. It was because they successfully assimilated successive waves of immigrants over the centuries.
3. The wall didn't work for the purposes of immigration control when it really counted. The biggest waves of immigrants into China during the period when the wall existed were mostly through the wall in the north, not through the open borders in the other three directions.
4. The period the Chinese themselves thinks of the golden era of Classical Chinese civilization, the Tang Dynasty, also happen to have been the most open and cosmopolitan era in Chinese history until the last few decades.
5. The Ming dynasty, one of the more closed and xenophobic of strong native dynasties in Chinese history, were also thought of by the Chinese as one of more repressive and kleptocratic eras in their history.
6. The wealthiest period, and the period during which China saw the fastest territorial and population growth in its history, was between 1650-1750, when the ruling dynasty itself was made up of immigrants, who, incidentally, came in through the wall.
1. They didn't build a wall around their country, they built one to the north of their country. There were continuous and vigorous trade and contact to the east, south, and west during the entire time the wall existed. Theirs was the largest trading nation in the world for much of period between 400AD -1600AD.
2. To the degree they seem homogenous now, it wasn't because of lack of immigration. It was because they successfully assimilated successive waves of immigrants over the centuries.
3. The wall didn't work for the purposes of immigration control when it really counted. The biggest waves of immigrants into China during the period when the wall existed were mostly through the wall in the north, not through the open borders in the other three directions.
4. The period the Chinese themselves thinks of the golden era of Classical Chinese civilization, the Tang Dynasty, also happen to have been the most open and cosmopolitan era in Chinese history until the last few decades.
5. The Ming dynasty, one of the more closed and xenophobic of strong native dynasties in Chinese history, were also thought of by the Chinese as one of more repressive and kleptocratic eras in their history.
6. The wealthiest period, and the period during which China saw the fastest territorial and population growth in its history, was between 1650-1750, when the ruling dynasty itself was made up of immigrants, who, incidentally, came in through the wall.
