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Originally Posted by Lutiferre
So lets say we deported everyone it was possible with. Then we would still have a very large amount of immigrants, many of which would likely resist assimilation - criminal types, or religious fanatics. If we assume it would be possible to force them to assimilate (which we cant be sure of), we can not deny that there will always be a cultural impact anyway. There would be a foreign cultural influence embedded in society. The problem really is how you are going to make them assimilate successfully, especially if you force them.
I am skeptic of the approach of cultural dictatorship. Even if it was ideal, which it isnt, how would one make that happen? Most people are against any kind of nationalism, and many of those that arent, are much more liberal than that.
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I believe every healthy national organism by its nature strives to become homogeneous. So I didn’t propose anything especial since there are only two ways to this homogeneity – assimilation and alienation (deportation/ghettoes/apartheid etc.). (Well, there is a third way - extermination; but I think we’ll both agree that it’s abnormal for a human to kill another human
). By ‘assimilation’ I mean not accepting some ways of behaving or a system of values but complete assimilation (I’m keeping in mind here mostly high percentages of “Poles”, Russians and Ukrainians in Belarus and the high percentage of inter-ethnic marriages because of that). Who cannot be assimilated successfully (for different reasons) should be alienated. Nobody should be forced – simply if you don’t want to be assimilated, then please:
a suitcase – a railway station – a freight car. Successful assimilation means very little or no foreign cultural elements remained, so I don’t think that possible foreign influence can be a big problem.
Welcoming multiculturalism is a sign of unhealthy society, that’s why I think that it will be rejected anyway. Societies can’t remain sick forever.