Subj : Great Replacement Theory
To   : Boraxman
From : Kaelon
Date : Wed May 25 2022 15:18:16

  Re: Great Replacement Theory
  By: Boraxman to Kaelon on Wed May 25 2022 08:27 pm

 > How do you account for the same phenomenon elsewhere, outside of the US?
 > Such as my home city?

See below.

 > Sorry, as I've said, I've been to many cities, and SEEN the replacement.  If
 > you want, you can go to Paris, to London, to Birmingham, to Melbourne, to
 > Brussels, to Marseilles, and see this for yourself.

I go on business every month to Europe and Australia, and for over 30 years been traveling to Spain and France to visit family and friends.  Europe has, at best, a mixed bag with assimilating populations; there is an uneven melting pot. Case in point: France, though being complicit as an Imperial power in Africa (see, especially, Algeria), has imposed cultural and legal restrictions on immigrants (such as the headscarf ban, schooling mandates) without also providing them with economic assistance and opportunity (such as language and skills training) that it has, in the case of Marseilles, created a parallel society of un-integrated foreigners who are French-people in waiting.  In contrast, Spain's integration of Moroccans into Andalusia is very American in its melting-pot style approach.

In short - creating a melting pot has to be a proactive act of integrating a population.  Reactively mistreating an immigrant population includes passing laws that restrict their cultural and religious values, isolating them from the economic and educational opportunities that would promote their integration and advancement, and, of course, blaming crackpot racist conspiracy theories that white people are being systematically replaced by non-whites.  Research shows that these are nativist tropes, and that the underlying social and political behaviors actually create racial tension as per the above.

 > We are not talking about abstract things like unfounded fear, ideology or
 > ideas, but an observable and real change.

Because Replacement Theory was invented as a consequence of France's post-colonial demographic failures, the best place to start is being educated on how France's own demographers and sociologists have rejected Renaud Camus' paranoid racist fantasies.  I recommend you start with Jenkins, Cecil (2017). A Brief History of France. Little, Brown Book Group. PT342. ISBN 978-1-4721-4027-2.

 > Again, the world doesn't revolve around what Americans think.

I start with the United States because (a) this is where I was born and live, and can speak best about what is in the American political mainstream; and (b) the United States, despite its flirtations with xenophobia and nativism, is the world's most successful multicultural melting pot, and can provide examples both of how it is done well (the Irish, Italians, Caribbean Hispanics, Portuguese, etc.), and how it is done poorly (African Americans, Central and South Americans, Native Americans, etc.).
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