[suzzer99]

Plenty of places with high ethnic/religious diversity have thrived: Singapore, Istanbul, New York City, (increasingly) the capitals of Western Europe. Teotihuacan, the largest pyramid complex outside of Egypt, was a multi-cultural city where different religions, languages and ethnicities lived side by side for 1000 years. It can be done.

[nonrandomstring]

> Plenty of places with high ethnic/religious diversity have thrived:

What you say is true but besides the point. There's no argument to be made against ethnic/religious diversity. But there is a problem with foreign interference that stokes ethnic tension.

My own London is perhaps the most successful multi-cultural population in the world. We don't have RPG attacks on schools because we don't have superpowers spending millions on manipulating and arming the Hoxton Crips against the Hounslow Massive. And there's the important difference.

[bradwood]

> Hoxton Crips

LOL.

Not forgetting the Chelsea Gym Rats, the West End Wide Boys, the Hackney Pirates, the East End Geezahs, the Brixton Yardies, the Camden Punks, the Camberwell Carrots, etc

[suzzer99]

Yeah that is true.

[vineyardmike]

1. Singapore has an extremely controlling government and lots of accounts of an ethnic non-citizen “underclass” being exploited.

2. Turkey as a whole is questionable. They have rampant ethnic violence even if Istanbul is doing ok.

3. The US and Western Europe arent turkey but again, have various degrees of ethnic tension being played out. Whether that’s trump and all he stands for or France’s burka bans. They’re also generally more powerful so less susceptible to meddling.

[bergenty]

Every place has an underclass that gets exploited including homogenous countries. What’s your point?

[bergenty]

Pretty much all of the Roman Empire.