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0 pointsHKH22mo ago0 comments

I can't see how all the mental overhead of modern multicultural living can make you happier either.

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abenga2mo ago· 3 in thread

Really? Having other cultures around you makes one unhappy now?

HKH2OP2mo ago

Not being as happy and being unhappy are not the same.

Regardless, you should read Robert Putnam's essay, E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-First Century (2007). He makes it clear that social trust goes down because of it.

cucumber37328422mo ago

Because the culture that's moving in is intolerant of my way of life and wants to piecemeal eradicate it by using the government to incrementally make every bit of the way I live harder, more expensive or subject to capricious enforcement if not outright illegal.

I thought I would be able to get in a good 20-40yr settling down where I did and would only be complaining about this stuff when I was old. It's been about 10 and it's all going to shit.

And yes, I am intentionally not being specific and leaving room for assumption.

komali22mo ago

> And yes, I am intentionally not being specific and leaving room for assumption.

One thing I've consistently noticed about these kinds of conversations is that people want to be allowed to share racist opinions without suffering the social consequences of sharing racist opinions, but in order to do so they have to hide their true values by masking their language and not actually say anything that has any meaning.

I have nothing in my value system I'm ashamed of, I'll say any aspect of it in any company at all. Is it hard not having a value system like that?

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