Ethnocentrism

[Anomalocaris]

You can’t make an alloy if you think the process of putting different metals together is too messy.     It does make some metal molecules afraid of the future, however.   They use to be the only metal around and if you are one of those molecules you think god has been good to you.    Now you know you are not one of those other metal molecules that is needed to make the better alloy, and you no longer can be sure your type of molecule really will still be paid the highest, or only, price, per pound.

I've never heard anyone argue that all countries should be multicultural. Only western countries.

Many countries survived this long as a result of being an alloy of multiple cultures without admitting it or your realizing it.

The west has a particular need to overtly encourage multi-culturalism because western cultures are demographically moribund.   So it need to integrate people of other cultures or else the west will go down the demographic toilet through depopulation over the next 100 years just like Japan.

The world will become wealthier as ever more people become middle class.  The comparative advamtage the west has enjoyed since indutrulization will diminish to nothing.     If 600 million westerners don’t want to be marginalized because when the 3 billion Indians and Chinese who have become just as wealthy and therefore command 5 times the economic power, they don’t have any skin in the game of the western culture, then they had better try hard to not make western culture obnoxious through ethnocentrism and instead make it more familiar and integral to the culture of the people who will reach developed status over the next 100 years.

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Ultimately, no one else has skin in the game of any strongly ethnocentric culture.    If demography and size is not on its side, then Such a culture will likely diminish and perish, or be absorbed wholly into some else;s melting pot when it has shrunken to the point of being just the size of a allying element in some else’s metal.

You either set up a melting pot on your terms now, or be melted into some one else;s melting pot on their terms later.