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Overcoming Bias Commenter's avatar

I experienced genuine multiculturalism in Toronto in the 1990s, and though it had its problems it was a pretty decent arrangement overall. In the decades since I've watched Toronto's multiculturalism steadily get ploughed under by the "multiculturalism" of the globalists.

The latter is really just bog-standard American WASP ethnocentrism--the belief that "inside every Vietnamese there's an American trying to shoot his way out". Calling that stance multiculturalism is basically an exercise in "rebranding", albeit one that is quite breathtaking in its audacity. So WASPs who let outsider customs influence their behaviour get accused of "cultural appropriation" instead of "not acting white", works originating in other cultures get denounced as "stereotyping" instead of being denounced as "foreign", etc. "Destroy the villiage in order to save it", IOW, played out in the cultural sphere.

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I would say that while some of the differences between modern and ancestral cultures are due to morally neutral changes in circumstances or cultural drift, the ones that I care about more tend to be associated with increases in societal wealth and knowledge. These have been increasing steadily for at least the last few centuries, and seem to correspond quite well with the 'moral progress' made in that time. If something like the Age of EM happens to seriously reduce per capita wealth it's certainly plausible that trend towards moral progress could go in the opposite direction, but it seems reasonable enough for people's default assumption to be that the trends that have been ongoing since the at least industrial revolution will continue for a while longer.

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