throwaway2037 4 hours ago

    > Certain cultures teach that diversity is a bad thing to be feared and extinguished.

Ok, I take the bait. Which ones?

▲ hdgvhicv 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Just today

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/mandarin-...

	▲	throwaway2037 36 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Mainland Chinese gov't claims to have 56 official ethnicities in their country. They are certainly celebrated by official media. In particular, they seem to love the southwest portion of the country (Guangxi and Yunnan) with many mountaineous regions and various ethnic groups, mostly because they do not protest the central gov't. Also, look at the coins and bills of yuan -- many different ethnicities.

▲ therealdrag0 24 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

More approachable framing: tribalism (generally accepted human tendency) is inherently anti-diversity.

▲ vitally3643 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The one where I live :(

	▲	throwaway2037 36 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I'm sorry for that. Where?

▲ tpoacher 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is it bait? I'm pretty sure it's a reasonably factual, albeit general claim. Asking chatGPT for country-specific examples for instance gives this:

> Yes—some countries have (at various times, and in some cases still today) adopted policies aimed at making the population more “homogeneous,” through segregation, assimilation pressure, or exclusion/deportation. Concrete examples:

- South Africa (apartheid era, 1948–1990s): An official system of racial classification and enforced separation (“separate development”).

- Germany (Nazi period, 1933–1945): State ideology enforced a racial hierarchy and pursued forced removal and mass murder of those deemed “undesirable.”

- Israel (state policies affecting Palestinian citizens and occupied territory, especially since 1967): Includes laws and administrative practices that many observers describe as producing or enforcing unequal status by group; key issues include citizenship status differences and restrictions tied to national/ethnic identity.

- Myanmar (Rohingya): Policies and law enforcement that stripped/blocked citizenship for Rohingya and enabled persecution, culminating in mass violence and displacement.

- Canada (Indigenous assimilation policy, especially 19th–20th century into 1996): Forced assimilation via residential schools and bans on language/cultural practices; many have characterized this as cultural genocide.

- United States (Jim Crow + earlier immigration/citizenship rules; and internment): Historical legal regimes created segregation and restricted citizenship/naturalization based on race/national origin (e.g., earlier Asian-exclusion immigration restrictions).

You may disagree with some examples on this list, but I'm sure even you would consider that the first two are clear examples of diversity-fearing 'cultures' rather than 'bait'. And this is even before considering the wider definition of the word 'culture', which can be even more exclusionary.

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dhosek 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I would edit the US item to remove “historical” given the current efforts to reinstate everything in parentheses and add new ones.

	▲	throwaway2037 26 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Fair point. I did not write my response from a historical viewpoint. I was writing from a current persepective. To give credit to their reply, many of their example are correct. With the exception of some very backwards dictatorships, at this point, pretty much most countries value some diversity. Plus, after 2010, all people under 30 have watched thousands of hours of YouTube, so they know the world is big, cool, and very diverse.

▲ contagiousflow 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Have you never met a pro ICE person from USA?