Seems every time you try to make some fundamentally discriminatory point the definition has to keep expanding form e.g. Britain, to EUROPE to Western to whatever.
Democracy is Greek. Our counting system is Arabic. 0 is an Indian concept. etc etc etc.
Progress is just a flame and people who know they can make it happen go to where other similar people are.
> Progress is just a flame and people who know they can make it happen go to where other similar people are.
yet progress only seems to be happening in Western countries and has been for centuries and everyone continuously tries to immigrate to Western countries and never in the reverse direction.
I struggle to agree with you
Did you even bother picking up a for-kids textbook on world history? 250 years is incredibly short, it's not even 10%?
For centuries.. "western" countries did not even exist.
This reminds me of an old daoist quote I heard ages ago, probably in high school:
Those that know, do not speak. Those who speak, do not know.
In other words:
If you have to say you know it all, you know fuck all.
And ends it with America is "high trust" like as if they never heard of Japan...
And I still can't leave a darn Chromebook in the library for a 5min toilet break without losing it because the trust is so high.
I live in a suburban town I can leave my stuff at a table and go to the restroom with no worries.
what do you think the difference between my town and yours is?
The difference is that one is a town and the other isn't. A town has barely any people. Just because you can leave your stuff at home does not make the country a high-trust country. Among countries US is a low-trust country.
> Japan is an exception
Japan is not the exception. It isn't even the leader, just a well-known and famous country. I encourage you to travel a bit and escape the echo chamber of Douglas Murray books and other western culture supremacists. Stop reading and start seeing. You will be shocked to find at least 100 high-trust cultures and will understand why your standards were that low.
Er, quite a lot came from Africa.
the surest sign of a midwit is the inability to infer.
What about the people who were already there? Surely they'd still be a substantial portion of the population?
I guess they must have all left voluntarily because they didn't agree with Western values.
they got conquered if you look at history books
> they didn't agree with Western values.
you don't ever disagree with people who you share the same values and culture with?
I don't agree with Cesaire much, but you cannot discuss about colonialism without reading him first.
But given how Irish and Italians were treated back then, I imagine Eastern Europe immigrants had it even worse
That's where everyone in America came from.
Same culture, same history, same values.
Western civilization seems to create high trust societies that other cultures struggle to replicate.
People say America was founded on immigration which is true but they neglect to say that it was immigration FROM EUROPE.
Immigrants from non-western countries weren't allowed into America en masse until the 1965 immigration act.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_...