Keating wrote: ↑
Kirbmarc wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 10:43 am
Keating wrote: ↑The main thing I object to, going down the path we're currently on, is that the obvious outcome of this is that eventually the whole world will have one culture. I think something will be lost when that occurs.
I strongly disagree with this conclusion. There are unifying forces in cultural terms, but there are also creative ones. People likely thought that the influence of Roman culture would have brought forth One World Culture during the Roman Empire.
I think this is where our disagreement comes from. Having lived mostly in Canberra, but also Eastern Europe and Southern UK and travelled extensively, I'm disturbed how much Canberra has transformed to become more like a "global" city over the last few decades. It's losing its unique character. A good example of this is architecture. It used to be the case you could tell a city by the character of its buildings. Nowadays, new buildings could equally be at place in any city in the world. The unique character of cities is being lost, for the samey global hodgepodge with a McDonald's on every corner, and the same concrete and glass boxes. Of course, I don't live in an ethno-state that bans the construction of minarets. :P
This is the thing that Kirbo has demonstrated repeatedly - he tells other people that change is inevitable where they live because immigrants, all from his unchangeable Chocolate Box Land. When you ask him about immigration he says of course Switzerland allows it, but without directly admitting it he indicates that the barriers are high, and also, susceptible to arbitrary rejection by a bunch of people who almost certainly (I would bet body parts (min) on this) would hate the idea of bringing in even a small number of people who might differ widely from the Swiss Miss ideal. Breeeeeve is 100% right when he calls Kirbo on this, and says that the written law is X, but that people can discriminate entirely legally and invisibly.
Another characteristic of Kirbo is that he totally ignores questions that might tend to uncover the ill-informed and ungenerous attitude to people who he accuses of supporting ethno-statism without understanding that there are horrible problems in Paris, London, Malmo,
Interlaken, etc., and that the natives of those places are expressing a genuine concern for the well being, integrity, and future of the places where they may have lived for hundreds of years. It's ivory towerism of the typical bloodless and conscienceless Swiss position.