But at this point, the question of whether overpopulation is a problem,
isn't dealt with objectively. It has become politicized. Trump and
Republicans see immigrants as a problem. But if you read studies and
history, you discover that immigrants generally make positive contributions
to the society both culturally and economically. But it's impossible to have
an objective discussion on the matter.
Miriam
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In mankind's earliest days the seeing of newcomers as "other" and possibly
dangerous served in many cases as a viable defense strategy. But
hospitality was just as viable a defense strategy, and tended to work better
in the long run, as new ideas and techniques could be shared between
cultures and make everyone more successful, comfortable, and well fed. It
is when a particular region begins to be overpopulated that we begin
reverting to fear of the other, allowing paranoia and prejudices to flourish
and lead to internecine wars and suppressions of others.
Bonnie Sherrell
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On Tue, 30 May 2017 19:38:05 -0400, Miriam Vieni wrote:
Carl,ften enslaved the vanquished. This business of banding with one's kind and
OK. So let's substitute the word tribalism for racism and lets leave
the contemporary American scene behind. In 1986, I visited Kenya. By
then, the English Colonials were gone. The country was ruled by one
party. That party was composed of the people from one of the two
dominant tribes in Kenya. There had always been different tribes there,
way before any English arrived, way before western civilization raised
its ugly head. And there were people of the Muslim faith who had
migrated from the Middle East. It wasn't white people who captured
black people and brought them to the African coast for transport to the
new world. African tribes had been fighting each other forever and
enslaving each other. Now there was a monetary incentive. But the
point is that the population was divided and the divisions had nothing
to do with Capitalism or class structure. The same thing was true on
our continent. The natives were divided into tribes and many of them
fought each other and the victors o
Miriam
