If they are all the descendants of prior residents, at some point there must have been some inbreeding. On the bright side, when couples divorce they’re still brother and sister.
Because every state needs the federal government. They’ve all sold their souls.
I hope this wasn’t intended for me(there’s a deleted post from someone else, above it). I like NYC(not always the government, like most places) and don’t consider it Yankee at all.
I said most, and it doesn’t follow that they are inbred, anyway. Let’s say one piece of your family has been in State Z for 10 generations. You are a descendant of people that have been there for 10 generations, even if the other side of your family is from Siberia.
It was for the deleted post.
Apparently I wasn’t fast enough and I’ve already been read and given an answer.
The question I deleted was about where you think it’s best to live in the United States. As well as the fact that people have different preferences - one likes to be warm, another to have a winter season, and a third to be close to the ocean.
I deleted my opinion because I remembered that there was a topic that was about what you like about the place where you live. Certainly there were opinions on the issues I asked. I just didn’t want to spam.
I apologize.
A decent chunk of America’s strength and greatness lies in it’s diversity of ethnicities/opinions/cultures/etc. I choose to live where I do, in part, because I enjoy the diverse mix of people and cultures and all the cool stuff that comes along with that. IMO it would suck to live in a homogenized culture after a while and would lead to stunted personal growth as a result.
OK, so theoretically if the country Balkanized, there could be a place that suits your tastes. I didn’t say that territorial breakup would have to be along any one particular characteristic.
With that said, would you care if others with different preferences got away from you and pursued what they want? If so, why?
I lived and worked in one of the most diverse areas of the planet for 37 years, my close friends are diverse, and my wife is white while I’m Jewish. However, I don’t see how my personal growth would’ve been stunted had I lived in Israel around mostly Jews.
Do you think people living in homogeneous countries are personally held back because of homogeneity? Obviously there’s no universal wrong or answer, so I’m only asking in the context of what you wrote.
I think my life would be poorer for it, as would theirs.
Yes, I think that diversity leads to greater personal growth.
Got it.
My question concerned whether you would care if such people disassociated from you and ran things their way, albeit poorer and stunted (according to what you wrote)?
And we have such views even in residential areas, but almost 100% inhabited by gypsies. And when something has to be spit on the state, only the bad things are photographed, and the beautiful ones are not photographed. But I really haven’t seen as much rubbish in such parts of the urban infrastructure as in the photo you gave as an example. Otherwise, in the countries of Western Europe and especially in the north, as they say, you can’t see a remnant of a cigarette on the ground. But there the fines for such dumping are brutal - in thousands of dollars / euro /
Did you see the whole video?
I saw it, bad job. But what I’m talking about is even more disgusting. In many countries, gypsies are not like gypsies in Eastern Europe. For the most part, our gypsies are complete scum and have no desire to recover. You give them homes, you give them jobs, everything is clean and tidy and after a few years it turns out like in the picture. In the end, the state leaves them to die and that’s it. THEY DON’T WANT TO CHANGE.
Got it.
America was all for diversity when it needed people to build this nation.
If it weren’t for immigration, American cuisine would be as bad as English cuisine. When they tear down statues of Columbus they should replace them with statues of Chef Boyardee.
But we cannot compare a poorer country in Eastern Europe with the United States, which is a super military and economic power. This is much more unacceptable for you. Obviously, the class stratification is huge. There are no people here who live or behave like that, unless they are gypsies. And with us, a gypsy does not just mean a way of life (as in many countries), they are a completely separate ethnic group, who moved hundreds, even thousands of years ago from South Asia to Europe.
I say this so as not to be misunderstood or offended by my words. Those who call gypsies, for example, in the countries of America or Western Europe in many cases do not look like and are not like the gypsies in our countries. Even in appearance. Of course, there are decent people with good professions, but most of them are as I showed in the photo.
IMO, this is somewhat a reflection of society as a whole. A society that allows poor living conditions for some, and good living conditions for some.
I don’t think this accurately describes the condition IME. I think @deyan had it right when he said this
You haven’t been through LA much, if at all, I take it? There are so many programs in Cali to get you off the street that you don’t even need to work, yet skid row still remains a city of tents.
These people want to live like this.
Are you aware many live like this by their own volition and because of their own decisions? Have you met many addicts and homeless people? I have met several.
Why do you have a good living condition aside from being allowed to have it?
We had vagrancy laws that used to not even allow what is shown in the video.
Decisions I agree with. However, I think a good part of these folks have mental illness either diagnosed or undiagnosed. I don’t think they want to live like that despite their decisions. Mental illness can result in cognitive dissonance in regards to what people want, and the decisions they make.
This is true, but the deinstitutionalization of mental health.
