Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "The Bronze Age Collapse - Systems Collapse - Extra History - Part 4" video.

  1. Maureen Lycaon it's not even that all complex societies are multicultural/multiethnic, but that multiculturalism makes nations stronger. From multiple examples in Egypt (including even adopting the technologies of their conquerers), to the multiple ancient empires (being multicultural by definition as being empires) that allowed conquered lands to maintain much of their culture and autonomy, to China being a combination of multiple (often separate) lands, to Rome's adoption of basically any good idea they ran into (and even every god they couldn't find a rough enough equivalent of to say "oh, we just call the god of _ the name ___"), to the golden age of Islam's welcoming of other faiths and even "doubters" into their courts and intellectual circles (which saw their science boom immediately stoped when they became more religious purists), to Mongolia's often forceful conscription of the intellectuals of other cultures allowing them to create and administer one of the largest empires the world has ever known almost overnight dispite starting with essentially 0% literacy, to the enlightenment's rediscovering of Greek culture and philosophy, to Russia's program of paying a great deal for Western industrial experts to move to their country (rappidly catapulting them from irrelevant backwater to major world power), to the USA which not only is often referred to as a melting pot but our very from of government is based on ancient greek philosophy, Roman bureaucracy, English common law, and Native American peace treaties (and was the beta version and template for basically all modern government). The majority of the problems people blame on multiculturalism are actually from ethno-cultural purists tearing appart their own societies in a hissy fit over being asked to share it. The remainder are more than made up for by the benefits of one of the most surefire ways to create national success in human history.
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