Quote: (09-01-2016 01:07 PM)MMX2010 Wrote:
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The alt-right perspective is as follows: culture is created by race, and mediated by environment. Nearly everyone would be happier if they lived close to their ancestral homes: dark-skinned people near the equator, light skinned people in the 30-50 latitudes.
There are numerous environmental cues that explain cultural differences, and predict that cultural assimilation is impossible. (My favorite is the recent discovery about the difference between wheat and root vegetables. Wheat spoils and must be stored. Root vegetables don't.)
You are correct on assimilation. Assimilation does not exist. But that also applies within races, not just between races.
The Slavic, Irish and Italian immigrants who came to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century did not assimilate, they changed the country forever. In my area of the country, for example, there's a Catholic church in every borough. The founders did not have particularly positive views of Catholicism. If they had been alive during the 1950s (the "glory days" that the alt-right seeks to replicate, which is impossible for multiple reasons), they would have been disgusted at how the country had been changed, even though these various groups are considered "white" today. Simply put, even when the demographics were 90% "white," it was still no longer the country the founders had created.