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Re:Forced Labor in Malaysia's Electronics Industry by ambicapter on Sunday July 01, 2018 @06:54PM (#17438151)
You seem to be arguing that this is a protective notion, when really it argues the opposite. If you bring two large groups of people together, their respective cultures are not going to change quickly. And if their cultures clash with each other, you have a recipe for enduring intra-national strife.
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Re:Forced Labor in Malaysia's Electronics Industry by noobermin on Sunday July 01, 2018 @07:37PM (#17438334)
Is there an actual historical example of this? Most civil wars throughout history aren't due to immigrants, it's usually due to geographical and cultural divides that have long existed in a country.
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Re:Forced Labor in Malaysia's Electronics Industry by billner on Sunday July 01, 2018 @07:48PM (#17438383)
Most countries in history didn't have immigrants from the other side of the world either.
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Re:Forced Labor in Malaysia's Electronics Industry by noobermin on Sunday July 01, 2018 @07:58PM (#17438423)
The United States imported Africans as slaves for 100+ years. While some flair ups occured, black people never fully revolted into a situation that could be called a civil war. The US Civil War was fought over slavery, but it was fought between the North and the South, not black vs. white.

Ditto on Chinese immigrants in the later 1800s, Germans, etc. The point is that immigrants are always a minority in their host country, so they naturally have less of a base and thus power.

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Re:Forced Labor in Malaysia's Electronics Industry by Gravityloss on Monday July 02, 2018 @07:18AM (#17440723)
I didn't argue it as a protective notion.
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Re:Forced Labor in Malaysia's Electronics Industry by Quarrelsome on Sunday July 01, 2018 @08:09PM (#17438471)
I would argue that most intra-national strife comes from histories of wars and blood feuds. The Balkans being a case of this.

> And if their cultures clash with each other, you have a recipe for enduring intra-national strife.

Feels logical but also feels unproven.

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