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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by cromwellian on Monday March 13, 2017 @05:23PM (#13862559)
Colonialism and Imperialism isn't about building cross-national melting pot entities, it's about strategic control of resources and geo-political regions.

You think previous empires were built because they were more concerned with equality and anti-tribalism?

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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by coldtea on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @02:27AM (#13865469)
>Colonialism and Imperialism isn't about building cross-national melting pot entities, it's about strategic control of resources and geo-political regions.

"Melting-pot entities" are concerned with the same things ("strategic control of resources and geo-political regions") too. Cross-national melting is mostly about whether you allow the peoples you control to keep their identities or you want to abolish them too, for less market friction and/or smoother political control. USSR comes to mind on the latter. UK/US/EU on the former.

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