• rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
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    5 months ago

    Yes. It is. Isolation inherently breeds tribalism, prejudice, and fear of the other. It is extremely harmful.

    It depends. If we think about Middle-Eastern and Balkan stuff, physical separation may really be better than mixed living which may turn into a mutual slaughter any day. That would be because cultural isolation doesn’t require physical separation, and other things.

    If we think about poorer and richer layers of the same general culture, with the poorer layers having more people with African ancestry - then yes.

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      5 months ago

      You’re not allowed to tell Americans that how they want the world to be isn’t exactly correct.

      Americans even inherently understand this by their nature of forming into their chosen tribes rather than their more historically convenient ones. You see this for left right divide, the rich poor divide along with every other divide in American society.

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          ? You think you get to independently choose your group? You don’t, even among the most progressive.

          You kinda sorta need to be welcome in the group whatever that group is.

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        It’s a problem with any group of humans really - the majority always thinks that one size fits all, and that their situation and the appropriate solutions are the same everywhere.