Goshdarn you, Britain

The Batlord · 12-02-2011, 10:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Il Duce

"your grandmother smell of elderberries
and I fart in your general direction"?

(from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail")

NO, NO, NO! "I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries." Douche.

Howard the Duck · 12-02-2011, 10:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Batlord

NO, NO, NO! "I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries." Douche.

i didn't memorise it - i have better things to do with my brain cells

The Batlord · 12-02-2011, 10:30 AM

Than memorize Monty Python quotes? "What a strange person!"

Howard the Duck · 12-02-2011, 10:35 AM

i do existentialist internal monologues, with precision quoting, usually, with my brain cells and not memorising trivia

hip hop bunny hop · 12-04-2011, 02:59 AM

Another wonderful multicultural success story.

Quote:

In the most diverse communities, neighbors trust one another about half as much as they do in the most homogenous settings.

link

Salami · 12-31-2011, 11:08 AM

What's your point?

After reading that it seems that they've failed to take into account the fact that people are always distrustful of newcomers. In diverse communities, I'm prepared to bet that half the people have arrived relatively recently, and therefore less likely to be trusted anyway.

hip hop bunny hop · 01-02-2012, 07:23 PM

Right. Why should we trust a peer reviewed academic study on the subject, when a teenager is willing to place a bet?

~~Rubato~~ · 01-02-2012, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by hip hop bunny hop

Right. Why should we trust a peer reviewed academic study on the subject, when a teenager is willing to place a bet?

How about one from the very same professor you quoted?

Quote:

In this article, I wish to make three broad points:

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Ethnic diversity will increase substantially in virtually all modern societies over the next several decades, in part because of immigration. Increased immigration and diversity are not only inevitable, but over the long run they are also desirable. Ethnic diversity is, on balance, an important social asset, as the history of my own country demonstrates.
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In the short to medium run, however, immigration and ethnic diversity challenge social solidarity and inhibit social capital. In support of this provocative claim I wish to adduce some new evidence, drawn primarily from the United States. In order to elaborate on the details of this new evidence, this portion of my article is longer and more technical than my discussion of the other two core claims, but all three are equally important.
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In the medium to long run, on the other hand, successful immigrant societies create new forms of social solidarity and dampen the negative effects of diversity by constructing new, more encompassing identities. Thus, the central challenge for modern, diversifying societies is to create a new, broader sense of ‘we’.

Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century

check your sources.

**Janszoon** · 01-02-2012, 09:04 PM

(if only there were some kind of racist-getting-burned-by-his-own-cherrypicking-of-the-facts emoticon)

The Batlord · 01-03-2012, 12:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hip hop bunny hop

Another wonderful multicultural success story.

link

So are you just going to admit that you're a nazi or what?

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12-31-2011, 11:08 AM	#46 (permalink)
Salami Get in ma belly Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Derbyshire Posts: 1,385	What's your point? After reading that it seems that they've failed to take into account the fact that people are always distrustful of newcomers. In diverse communities, I'm prepared to bet that half the people have arrived relatively recently, and therefore less likely to be trusted anyway.