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I think people want to move to European derived places because of a) the positive long terms side effects of a society being high trust and b) a greater openness to outsiders among high trust societies, compared to e.g. East Asians, probably due to Christianity being a universalist religion. Like Japan is as nice if not nicer than most European derived places in terms of high trust-ness, but historically they haven’t really allowed people outside their ethnic sphere to move there in large numbers.
Minus the whole crusades and inquisition thing.
Crusades and inquisition are perfectly compatible with that.
I’m an atheist by the way, I know once you express some position everyone tends to assume you have whatever standard package includes that position. I also don’t think this universalism has been a good thing long term. It united Europeans too quickly and destroyed their various separate identities while replacing it with something that is essentially a blender (in the sharp blades destroying things connotation, not the delicious fruit smoothie creation connotation).
It must be so convenient to have one overarching theory to explain all of the complex geopolitical and socioeconomic phenomena in the world, and it just so happens to be something that’s easily observable!
God I would love to have a beer with someone like you for once, and just have an honest conversation without you feeling pressured to lie about what you really think. It would be so interesting to me. Similarly for flat earthers.
How do you explain Singapore? South Korea? Japan?
You have found three outliers out of 193 countries.
It still really doesn't disprove the theory that 100% of white western civilization founded countries have people trying to immigrate to them whereas outside of a tiny handful the rest of the countries have zero immigration problems.
All of these countries need to be studied for what behaviors and cultures create high trust first world style societies.
Additionally, I wouldn't consider UK to be "high trust" these days either. I don't blame that on immigration, but economic contraction.
I can't tell if you're serious or just saber rattling. I know better than to engage with this type of stuff on Reddit, but I like to think people in the HN space are more methodical than this.
Do the republics in the Caucasus region (and Russia) count in this calculation or not?
(and I know your theory is bullshit because I'm Romanian...)
I think all races are ethnocentric as evidenced by entire neighborhoods being one race or another.
Humans are tribal by nature.
You think the far right is super duper dishonest when the reality is all fanatics are super duper dishonest.
Only as much as you encourage them to be.
> I think all races are ethnocentric as evidenced by entire neighborhoods being one race or another.
This is a depressing model of the world, and does not match my lived experience.
The biggest predictor of the zip code you live in is the zip code you were born in. And when that prediction fails significantly, it’s mostly due to mass migrations that have been deeply political.
Can’t believe we’re still in the “separate but equal” phase in the evolution of human society, especially given the amount of suffering it has caused.