mass shooting in norway , gov building bombed.

[ballzac]

Going to the media for facts is like going to a crackhouse for vitamins. It just isn't a good bet.

 

...or going to the health-food store for crack

[botanika]

Doesn't that in large part depend upon the strength ov a societies culture? 

If white Australians were to become a minority do you think Aussie rules football would disappear?

if we look at history when the Romans invaded Britain the strength ov their culture overwhelmed the British.

When the Romans left Britain the British preserved the Roman way ov life for the next 100-200 years, until the invasion ov the Saxons.

 

Yes cultural aspects, like aussie rules, would likely be assimilated or continued (some might be completely obliterated as well  (like cricket!)) and yes the strength of an invading, migrating or populating culture would be influencial as can be seen in the european colonies of Africa. But the underlying condition is that civilisations are a product of the people that create them and if the original people are displaced, removed or assimilated by another that civilisation usually falls or can longer be maintained to its original state. Naturally many first world European countries do not want to be displaced by 3rd world populations just as an amazon tribe doesn't want to be displaced by industrialization. If enough indigeneous australians moved to China and displaced the Chinese population, China would reflect the majority indigeneous population. If they physically wiped out the chinese and remained ethnocentric the chinese cultural legacies continued would be less if at all, if they assimilated and mixed with the chinese they would become a mixed race. It doesn't matter how strong or weak the Chinese culture is - if enough people from another race/culture move there, the society will change to reflect that new culture. Egypt is a classic example of a mixed race culture. Sometimes different races/cultures will take over another and in the end claim the original civilisation is their own. Again Egypt is a classic example of this. Other times an occupying new culture or race cannot keep up the sophistication of the original people such as can be seen in the white flight areas of the USA (like Detriot). Its all matters of degree. The Roman and British were also fairly similar racially (both european) so it was a somewhat easier assimilation there. In reverse many christian/catholic motifs, language and symbology are directed pulled from the original pagan/norse culture of Britain.

Edited July 28, 2011 by botanika