If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.
George Aiken
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April 25th, 2006 at 11:33 am
haha - good quote
April 25th, 2006 at 3:56 pm
In Britain 150 years ago we were mostly only one race, and colour. The arguement then was over the upper class vs the lower class.
But we were relatively united.
You can look around the world and see which countries have the most peaceful communities and which have a lot of criminality and chaos. Multi-cult countries like France have the big riot problems, and Sweden is having to close schools because of the ethnic strife.
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2006/04/malm-update-school-closing.html
Why are almost 100% mono racial & cultures like Iceland not creating these new prejudices?
April 25th, 2006 at 8:50 pm
An interesting perspective.
My best friend is of a different cultural background to myself and I see no absolute reason for there to be strife between them — people just need to focus.
The trouble is that there are cultural groups who seem less willing to accept English freedoms and respect (though indigenous people are losing that too)… Maybe we should move to Iceland?
April 26th, 2006 at 9:27 am
you can’t hold up Iceland as an example, with their tiny population and unusual environment. Besides, it’s pretty obvious why Iceland doesn’t have the “ethnic strife” - you have to have large groups of recent immigrants to qualify for that problem, don’t you?
150 years ago, the British ruled much of the globe by force. A good example of a peace-loving community, then?
As you suggest, Dave, the rich people managed to “unite” the country because the rich had almost total power over the poor. But the worker’s life was a very sorry one, compared to today.
At a guess, I would expect multi-cultural societies to be less war-mongering than Victorian Britain, or even a united white Nazi Germany. How about mono-cultural Japan around 1930?
Does Britain have an ethnic conflict problem? I live in London surrounded by various nationalities - we seem to be living together pretty well to me.
April 26th, 2006 at 10:54 am
I think Simon’s right — it is too simplistic to blame multiculturalism.
I do think, though, that in some circumstances it is a contributory factor.
April 26th, 2006 at 5:19 pm
I was just saying the quote isn’t accurate and that if you compare different countries make up you cannot find these new extra prejuducies in single race mono culture countries.
Tbh I’d say the quote is pure marxist fantasy. There is no evidence for it at all, tell me what are these new prejuducies, do people in white countries like Finland go around attacking people with ginger hair? brown eyes?
Simon, I was not refering to the countries having a peaceful foreign policy, I mean peaceful communities at home. Its not really possible to compare mono cultures with multi-cultural countries in terms of agressiveness of foreign policies because true multi-cultural countries haven’t existed very long, but the USA doesn’t seem too shy in asserting itself.
Yes there were a lot of poor people in Britains past, but there would be a lot of poor people in Britain today if each woman was having 10+ kids to support. I don’t think poverty necessarily means an unhappy life. It was a different world years ago, people might not have had a lot of money but they used to grow their own vegetables and keep their own animals for meat. Its not an easily comparable world. I’m not saying they didn’t have it tough in a lot of ways, but I think the left do exaggerate, they need ‘the workers’ to be a victim group.
April 26th, 2006 at 5:48 pm
Maybe the cause isn’t countries that are not mono-cultures as much as the reverse?
I am going to need to start with an odd assertion: Countries that have a tendency to be hostile to immigrants tend to be peaceful to people of their own culture.
Britain, a country that has always had immigration (though, admittedly, not at current rates), does not necessarily have a more violent attitude within it because of class or immigrants — just a more violent nature…?
Football hooligans are an unfortunate product of the UK which is not found outside of Britain (except maybe Germany) in quite the same way. That we have more violence may not be at the door of immigrants…
Though how that compares with proportions in prisons etc is difficult to reconcile.
Did I mention the fence that I am sitting on is quite uncomfortable?