Comment by selimthegrim
12 hours ago
This is a gigantic middle finger to pre-1965 South Asian immigrants, which you continue to pretend don't exist.
12 hours ago
This is a gigantic middle finger to pre-1965 South Asian immigrants, which you continue to pretend don't exist.
Not at all! I think it’s the opposite! That population was small and scattered. They had limited capacity to create cultural enclaves, develop ethnic social identity, etc. They ended up absorbing much more culturally from Americans and had little cultural and social impact on the communities where they moved.
That’s quite different from mass immigration.
A few days ago he was claiming that the most orderly societies had the least seasoned food.
Am I wrong? You acknowledge that food preferences are cultural, right? Wouldn’t it be weird if culture just affected the kinds of food people like and how they dress, but not the kinds of civic institutions they form?