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It is most definitely disputable that it destroy social cohesion. The US was cohesive after WWII, by that point we already had a LOT of non-white people. Also black Americans have been here since the start.

Wrong.

  1950 Census
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  Race           Percentage of Total Population
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  White          89.5%
  Black          10.0%
  Other Races    0.5%

Keep in mind the black population was essentially segregated at this point.

I think it's important to note that our understanding of whiteness has changed over time. And, during that time, there was division amongst even what we consider today as white people. Polish and Italian immigrants often faced discrimination, for example.

If you get rid of race it doesn't fix anything because the underlying cause was never race - it was, and remains, humanities perverse desire for hierarchy and prejudice.

The white people will just then find some other irrelevant bullshit to be mad at each other about and will then segment themselves more. They will literally invent new races and ethnic groups, if they have to, to distinguish themselves from others.

Tell that to Hawaii. Your whole argument is destroyed by Hawaii’s culture. America (the continent) is broken socially because American whites cannot get along with others and they’ve gone mask off, destroying the cohesion we once had when they were trying to seem less hateful.

Hawaii is rife with ethnic tensions, not some exception.

Nah everyone gets along except the haoles

you're just racist

It might not be quite that simple. See for example: https://www.jstor.org/stable/48588978

It later resolves, but by definition of the human condition, it does initially I'm afraid. It's less about colour and more about values and creed

Chicken or the egg: multiculturalism doesn’t work or multiculturalism doesn’t work because assholes treat people with different cultures like shit.

Also what’s the definition of multiculturalism? Can orthodox Christians be chill with Catholics? How about Japanese with Korean?

Stupid shit.

Also what’s your definition of white? Does it include Mediterranean climates? Fair-skinned Arabs? How about the Irish? What about a French citizen born in Morocco who has a passing French accent but is fluent in Arabic, but isn’t Muslim - is he white?

Can’t believe in the year of our lord 2026 we’ve still got buffoons writing shit like this in earnest.

Imagine using Japan to argue about multiculturalism

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