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Old 07-01-2016, 09:48 AM   #389 (permalink)
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@grindy The only assimilation that immigrants should be required to go through is understanding and obeying the law, since the law draws the line where disagreeing with one culture's values is unacceptable. Sorry, writing and editing sentences on a cell whilst a little dehydrated makes for some interesting phrasing.

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All very fine to debate multiculturalism, but it's not very useful to do so in a statistical vacuum, because so much depends on employment figures, availability of housing and population density. Britain has been a pretty successful multi-cultural country for generations; if everyone has a job, a place to live and food on their plate, then multiculturalism can work. IMO the problems start when there aren't enough resources to go around; when your plate is empty but your ethnically-different neighbour is eating well, then multiculturalism starts to disintegrate. IMO this is what's happening in Britain; resources are being uncomfortably stretched, and people are begining to squabble.

And the most significant resource is land. The average population density of the world is 50 people per square kilometre. The British population is over 300/sq.km. Only a few countries, like India and Japan have higher figures. One immediate effect of this kind of density is to drives property price off the scale; today in Britain, for example, young married couples can't afford to buy houses.

To me the issue is all about the numbers. Britain already has a multicultural society; we don't need to prove anything to the world by absorbing immigrants in ever greater numbers. As one of the most densly populated countries in the world, I think we are entitled to say, "Let someone else soak up the excess of refugees and immigrants." Candidates might be the Gulf States or the USA, who both have a population density below the world average, see map:-

Spoiler for world population density map:
I'm starting to get closer and closer to Bill Burr's ideology that maybe a mass genocide wouldn't be all bad.
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