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Arioch wrote:
Zorg56 wrote:Actually i was thinking about freedom of what to do and what you can achieve.
With loroi life span, even if she is not highly trained specialist she can probably live like queen amongst humans.
As for the motive of smugglers- you can get either specialist who can accumulate hundreds of years of expirience over time, or you can get specialist with knowlege way beyond human technologies.
With 2 tech levels ahead even novice civilian engineer will have something usefull.
Land of possibilities, like USA in the beggining.
Well, Loroi with technical and scientific knowledge would certainly be valuable for knowledge transfer, I'll grant you that.

But in terms of "freedom of what to do and what you can achieve", a Loroi civilian will have no more "freedom" in human society than she did in Loroi society. She will still be a second-class citizen, she still won't be able to run the government, and she still won't be able to have children. Loroi civilians aren't slaves in Loroi society... they have more freedoms, in some sense, than the warriors do.

I'm not saying there wouldn't be transfer of migrants, but I'm not sure there would be a mass exodus. And I don't think the migrants would need to be "smuggled."
Well, I think they meant material freedom, A.K.A the freedom to make more money and buy more things. Which, might be very compelling for a human, but I don't think that's quite how most Loroi think.

But even beyond that, it's not impossible? It would be a complicated and risky thing to pull off, but it's not impossible that a liberal and ambitious human nation would be willing to offer citizenship to Loroi with sufficiently valuable skills and knowledge. They could also try to crack the science behind Loroi artificial conception, or even just aim for a Loroi with the appropriate knowledge - even today, I don't think we're that far from being able to create embryos without sperm. With 140~ years of scientific progress, we should almost certainly be able to do it. Doing so for Loroi would be more difficult, but it shouldn't take more than a decade of science to figure out, at that point? Of course, I have no idea how you want to treat science in outsider, you may not be interested in having biology be quite so advanced as that, because it alters the character of the setting. And of course, this scheme runs a chance of running into all sorts of problems and might very well result in a diplomatic incident of some sort. But, as I said, it's not impossible... :/

Edit: And as a side benefit of such a policy, you also get a population of Loroi, with the potential for telepathic and telekinetic recruits. And given that they're aliens, it's also likely that they have different aptitudes than humans even beyond that, which means that an economy containing both will likely be more efficient. SO, all the more reason to try and recruit a population of Loroi. Of course, theres no gaurantee that the human population of your country will be on board with this. We have enough trouble with racism and xenophobia among ourselves, throw actual aliens into the mix? Yeah, I bet that's gonna cause problems. I dunno, we might have it all figured out by 2160? Or, we might not. Honestly for this story, I'm gonna guess not. XD

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Angle wrote:
Arioch wrote:
Zorg56 wrote:Actually i was thinking about freedom of what to do and what you can achieve.
With loroi life span, even if she is not highly trained specialist she can probably live like queen amongst humans.
As for the motive of smugglers- you can get either specialist who can accumulate hundreds of years of expirience over time, or you can get specialist with knowlege way beyond human technologies.
With 2 tech levels ahead even novice civilian engineer will have something usefull.
Land of possibilities, like USA in the beggining.
Well, Loroi with technical and scientific knowledge would certainly be valuable for knowledge transfer, I'll grant you that.

But in terms of "freedom of what to do and what you can achieve", a Loroi civilian will have no more "freedom" in human society than she did in Loroi society. She will still be a second-class citizen, she still won't be able to run the government, and she still won't be able to have children. Loroi civilians aren't slaves in Loroi society... they have more freedoms, in some sense, than the warriors do.

I'm not saying there wouldn't be transfer of migrants, but I'm not sure there would be a mass exodus. And I don't think the migrants would need to be "smuggled."
Well, I think they meant material freedom, A.K.A the freedom to make more money and buy more things. Which, might be very compelling for a human, but I don't think that's quite how most Loroi think.

But even beyond that, it's not impossible? It would be a complicated and risky thing to pull off, but it's not impossible that a liberal and ambitious human nation would be willing to offer citizenship to Loroi with sufficiently valuable skills and knowledge. They could also try to crack the science behind Loroi artificial conception, or even just aim for a Loroi with the appropriate knowledge - even today, I don't think we're that far from being able to create embryos without sperm. With 140~ years of scientific progress, we should almost certainly be able to do it. Doing so for Loroi would be more difficult, but it shouldn't take more than a decade of science to figure out, at that point? Of course, I have no idea how you want to treat science in outsider, you may not be interested in having biology be quite so advanced as that, because it alters the character of the setting. And of course, this scheme runs a chance of running into all sorts of problems and might very well result in a diplomatic incident of some sort. But, as I said, it's not impossible... :/

Edit: And as a side benefit of such a policy, you also get a population of Loroi, with the potential for telepathic and telekinetic recruits. And given that they're aliens, it's also likely that they have different aptitudes than humans even beyond that, which means that an economy containing both will likely be more efficient. SO, all the more reason to try and recruit a population of Loroi. Of course, theres no gaurantee that the human population of your country will be on board with this. We have enough trouble with racism and xenophobia among ourselves, throw actual aliens into the mix? Yeah, I bet that's gonna cause problems. I dunno, we might have it all figured out by 2160? Or, we might not. Honestly for this story, I'm gonna guess not. XD
As I said in my post above, far from being impossible, I can easily imagine that there would be a few migrants, and there wouldn't be any need to "smuggle" them. If a Loroi worker wants to leave and the destination nation wants to accept her, then the Loroi government has no cause to try to prevent her, unless it's some kind of national security issue where she has sensitive information (which is unlikely). Loroi workers can and do migrate to alien worlds in the Union, and the Loroi government is perfectly content to see them go. Underpopulation is not a major concern for the hyper-reproductive Loroi, at least in the long term.

However, it's not a mass migration because there is little incentive for large numbers of Loroi workers to emigrate to alien societies, or for the alien societies to encourage them. The Loroi are insular and slightly xenophobic, and rely very heavily on telepathy for a sense of community. Most Loroi civilians speak Trade poorly if at all, and will find it difficult to learn local languages. The sort of personalities you see migrating are either xenophiles who just enjoy the experience of being in an alien environment, or savvy and charismatic entrepreneurs with the means to exploit alien markets. But there is not a lot of demand for ordinary Loroi workers in most alien societies; they are no more productive than native workers, and their telepathy is as much of potential problem as it is a benefit to the locals. Large numbers of Loroi migrants would naturally form little telepathically-connected ghettos, which is not a good situation for their them or the host nation. Mass immigration really only works well when the migrants integrate and assimilate into the host society, and that will be very difficult for Loroi. On those alien worlds where there are significant populations of Loroi, they tend to segregate themselves into separate enclaves that follow the normal rules of Loroi society.

Now as for Loroi migration to human nations, first of all, we are assuming a hypothetical post-war scenario in which the Loroi and Humanity both survive, are on good terms and hadn't ended up on opposite sides and done horrible things to each other, and that in the post-war order Loroi ships even have access to human territory. None of these situations is guaranteed. But in this hypothetical scenario, there would indeed be demand for technical specialists in a variety of fields, but aside from the above mentioned xenophiles and entrepreneurs, I don't think there would be much demand beyond that. Loroi workers are not especially productive, and in a human society their telepathy will have no positive value at all. The large population centers on Earth in 2160 are already experiencing overpopulation and almost certainly have some kind of reproductive and immigration controls, so the largest demand for labor would be in the new frontier colonies... and the "material freedom" for a Loroi worker in a human colony would be very little different from what she would experience in a similar sized Loroi frontier colony. In human societies, the Loroi will be surrounded by telepathic mutes, which will probably amplify their sense of being telepathically disconnected from other Loroi, and make the potential for ghettoization even stronger.

I think human medical technology in 2160 is easily up to the task of figuring out Loroi in vitro fertilization... but doing so would seem to me to be a little nuts. The Loroi are a hyper-reproductive gene-tailored warrior species with a long history of uncontrolled population growth and internal strife... why would anyone deliberately open this Pandora's box inside their own society by giving them unlimited capability to reproduce? I don't think it is irrational or bigoted to be concerned about the potentially catastrophic consequences of introducing large numbers of such an alien species into one's own population, and to weigh the benefits of doing so. People may view the restrictions of Loroi society as unpleasant or cruel, but they are necessary to prevent their civilization from over-reproducing and cyclically destroying itself as it did in the distant past. Starting new reproductive populations of Loroi in an alien society without these restrictions sounds to me like a recipe for disaster.

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Arioch wrote:I think human medical technology in 2160 is easily up to the task of figuring out Loroi in vitro fertilization... but doing so would seem to me to be a little nuts. The Loroi are a hyper-reproductive gene-tailored warrior species with a long history of uncontrolled population growth and internal strife... why would anyone deliberately open this Pandora's box inside their own society by giving them unlimited capability to reproduce?
Well, the third world is pretty rife with populations who have both a high reproductive rate and a history of ethnic violence, and yet 1st world societies (at least the european/american ones) don't seem too worried about importing them at rates never seen before in history, so there is some contemporary evidence of this happening.
Throw in a few propaganda campaigns about how Loroi need feminism and neo-liberal liberation from their oppressive feudal structures, and add the fact that every single male human with a functional libido will probably be willing to go to the barricades to make such an exodus happen, and you have a recipe for a possible extinction event.

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boldilocks wrote:Well, the third world is pretty rife with populations who have both a high reproductive rate and a history of ethnic violence, and yet 1st world societies (at least the european/american ones) don't seem too worried about importing them at rates never seen before in history, so there is some contemporary evidence of this happening.
Wait 10 more years until Babyboomers start dying off and several european countries suddenly have -viable- muslim/islamic parties cropping up. Check the worry meter once the shoe drops that voting is a privilege that gets diluted with every new citizen.

The powermove for the Loroi government would be to send humanity a few million Loroi + males to turn an eventual Loroi-Human conflict into a Loroi civil war.

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Loroi get children at 10. Do any of the characters still have their only slightly older mums? With their lifespan it could even be Stillstorm.
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1st world countries aren't worried about the ethnic violence because they've got a long history of that too. It's just another day in the life of the human race.

You might be surprised at how much an influence peoples' environment has on their behavior.

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boldilocks wrote:Well, the third world is pretty rife with populations who have both a high reproductive rate and a history of ethnic violence, and yet 1st world societies (at least the european/american ones) don't seem too worried about importing them at rates never seen before in history, so there is some contemporary evidence of this happening.
The humans in third world countries are the same species as those in first world countries, so we're not really talking about the same thing. Europe is allowing immigrants mainly because it needs the labor (since many Europeans have decided to stop having babies)... though I think they are starting to see that mass immigration without cultural assimilation can have detrimental effects to society. But Loroi are a totally different species; they're not just blue humans with a weird culture. In the same time it takes 100 humans to produce 50 adult children, 100 Loroi can produce 224.
Werra wrote:Loroi get children at 10. Do any of the characters still have their only slightly older mums? With their lifespan it could even be Stillstorm.
Yes, Tempo's mother is only about 10 years older than she is. Her family is a good example of how the human concept of generational roles can break down when applied to the Loroi. Tempo's mother and Tempo's own first daughter are each about 10 years apart, and have a kind of sisterly relationship. At the start of the war, there was a huge baby boom as the reproductive restrictions were eased, and so Tempo has a sister, a second daughter, a granddaughter, and a great granddaughter who were all born at about the same time (now about age 24).

Stillstorm is an example of the opposite extreme; she's the second daughter of a much older mother, and so Stillstorm's mother and older sister were roughly the same age from her point of view, and were sort of indistinguishable in terms of relationship from various older aunts and other relatives.

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Arioch wrote:Europe is allowing immigrants mainly because it needs the labor (since many Europeans have decided to stop having babies)
The political parties just fear bad press. Their political decisions are not dictated by what makes sense, but that they fear pictures of evil soldiers/police turning back crying children. There is no attempt to attract immigrants with the necessary skills and the illegal immigrants are entirely unsuited for the jobs needed.

By the way, how is the political system of the Loroi organized? Just a dictatorship? This has probably been discussed before, but it always stuck me as weird that highly advanced societies would still organize as unstable republics or dictatorships.

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Arent wrote:
Arioch wrote:Europe is allowing immigrants mainly because it needs the labor (since many Europeans have decided to stop having babies)
The political parties just fear bad press. Their political decisions are not dictated by what makes sense, but that they fear pictures of evil soldiers/police turning back crying children. There is no attempt to attract immigrants with the necessary skills and the illegal immigrants are entirely unsuited for the jobs needed.
I think that's true in the recent mass exodus from the Middle East and North Africa, but in the previous era of immigration I think it was more about the need for cheap labor.
Arent wrote:By the way, how is the political system of the Loroi organized? Just a dictatorship? This has probably been discussed before, but it always stuck me as weird that highly advanced societies would still organize as unstable republics or dictatorships.
It's sort of a military oligarchy. While the Azerein has significant executive power, she is elected and requires the support of the military bureaucracy to be effective, so she doesn't have to engage in all the same internal shenanigans that many modern Earth military dictators did to stay in power. And while a military government can be inflexible, it does encourage a certain element of meritocracy... at least, then they're really fighting.

Are republics inherently unstable? They're the most stable form of democracy that I'm aware of.

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I suppose some of it comes down to whether people are merely cogs in the machine to be expended and discarded as needed, or if they have any inherent value as an end in their own right. (It's ironic that anti-immigrant sentiment seems to hold that the immigrants are taking all the jobs, and that they are not useful for anything simultaneously.)

I'd suspect that at the tech level Humanity is at in the story, if the TCA desperately needed a rapid influx of population, and had the infrastructure to support the rapid influx, they'd pull a page from the Umiak's book or Plan B from Interstellar, and start employing artificial wombs. Sure there would be some people who protest and complain, but if it's a real do or die need, I'm not sure that sort of thing would stop anyone.

Although, if memory serves, a lack of manpower isn't exactly the bottleneck in the TCA or the Loroi Union. Rather it's more of a materials bottleneck. The Loroi have relaxed breeding restrictions, but they're not really to the point where they're hurting for fresh warriors. A lack of experienced warriors, maybe, but they still have the untapped option of exploiting the civilian population for numbers overall.

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boldilocks wrote:
Arioch wrote:I think human medical technology in 2160 is easily up to the task of figuring out Loroi in vitro fertilization... but doing so would seem to me to be a little nuts. The Loroi are a hyper-reproductive gene-tailored warrior species with a long history of uncontrolled population growth and internal strife... why would anyone deliberately open this Pandora's box inside their own society by giving them unlimited capability to reproduce?
Well, the third world is pretty rife with populations who have both a high reproductive rate and a history of ethnic violence, and yet 1st world societies (at least the european/american ones) don't seem too worried about importing them at rates never seen before in history, so there is some contemporary evidence of this happening.
Eh, that describes European populations until fairly recently. I myself am of italian descent - my dad has like a million siblings, but I only have one, and I'm not sure if I'm ever going to have children. Whatever trends are at play here, they seem perfectly capable of affecting immigrants within a generation or two.

Of course, none of that applies to Loroi, who, yes, are aliens, and ones quite likely to experience significant difficulty integrating into human society. Of course, with 140~ years of advancement in social sciences, it's entirely possible that that problem could be easily solvable? Though, again, probably not the story that Arioch wants to tell - advanced social sciences likely make for much poorer space opera than advanced spaceships and laser beams. ;)

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Arioch wrote: It's sort of a military oligarchy. While the Azerein has significant executive power, she is elected and requires the support of the military bureaucracy to be effective, so she doesn't have to engage in all the same internal shenanigans that many modern Earth military dictators did to stay in power. And while a military government can be inflexible, it does encourage a certain element of meritocracy... at least, then they're really fighting.
It's always a little difficult to come up with 'high tech' governments. In the case of technology, it's a little easier, you just say they have bigger, faster ships, can time travel or have biotechnology. But when it comes to society, it's difficult to imagine a credible, strictly more 'advanced' society.
Arioch wrote:Are republics inherently unstable? They're the most stable form of democracy that I'm aware of.
Well, that's what Plato said 2000 years ago. I do to a certain extend agree with him. Political parties tend to split the citizens into camps and turn them against each other.

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Arent wrote:Well, that's what Plato said 2000 years ago. I do to a certain extend agree with him. Political parties tend to split the citizens into camps and turn them against each other.
Adversarial systems have drawbacks, especially when taken to extremes, but competition is one way to keep systems working instead of stagnating.

What do you see as a stable form of government?

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Arent wrote:
Arioch wrote:Are republics inherently unstable? They're the most stable form of democracy that I'm aware of.
Well, that's what Plato said 2000 years ago. I do to a certain extend agree with him. Political parties tend to split the citizens into camps and turn them against each other.
Eh, sure, but you get similar problems in monarchies and the like. I've heard a convincing argument that it actually has to do with "elite" infighting. In that people would normally be pretty happy to just go along with most things, but once you have a portion of the "elite" who feel ambitious but shorted, they will naturally fan the flames of whatever disagreements exist in an effort to gain power. If its a democracy this means political parties, if it's not a democracy this means some other form of rebellion - see the French and Russian revolutions, for example. So, if this is true it suggests that democracies would be more stable because they can better channel these forces into something more productive and less destructive. See:

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icekatze wrote:(It's ironic that anti-immigrant sentiment seems to hold that the immigrants are taking all the jobs, and that they are not useful for anything simultaneously.)
That's actually not ironic, because both are simultaneously true. The importation of labor is a direct attack on the wage levels of the working and middle class.
Multi-ethnic labor forces also find it more difficult to organize into unions, so labor dispute outcomes become more favorable to the capitalist class.
In addition, third world immigration in europe has been an economic burden in the first-generation and is turning out to be an even greater economic burden for the second generation, and that burden is borne by the middle and working class as well, due to how their social welfare systems are structured. And those immigrants who don't work will still exists as potential workers, which means they still have a depressive effect on wages.
This means that the existence of these immigrant populations hit the working and middle class from both ends, economically speaking.
In this way, the indigenous population can be angry by pointing first at the immigrant labor decreasing their labor prospects and simultaneously point at the other part of the immigrating population increasing their welfare state costs while contributing nothing.

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Ok, so Loroi won't be flooding into the open arms of human territories once the war ends.

But what about humans seeking to migrate to Loroi worlds? Would they be allowed to, would/could they be useful?

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icekatze wrote: You might be surprised at how much an influence peoples' environment has on their behavior.
The general heritability of polygenic traits is actually around 80%. In addition consider that the childrens genes are already actively shaping the environment thanks to the parental generation providing it.
Which isn't even important imo, since european age brackets are well known. Why would migrants that come for wealth switch their culture if they know that in 30 years their people make up sizeable parts of the populace?
Fun fact: Berlin has a shortage of german children. In some schools 90+% of the children do not speak German as a primary language. Not new arrivals, 3th or 4th generation.

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Arioch wrote: Adversarial systems have drawbacks, especially when taken to extremes, but competition is one way to keep systems working instead of stagnating.

What do you see as a stable form of government?
I like Platos ideas of an actual aristocracy & also the 'imperial exam' in ancient china. Basically, the citizens took part in a competition, which had both martial (archery, horseback riding) and academic (mathematics, calligraphy etc.) subjects.

In fact, I wrote a fantasy story in which the society of the main characters is a combination of direct democracy and competition-based aristocracy similar to the 'imperial exam' ;)
Angle wrote:I've heard a convincing argument that it actually has to do with "elite" infighting. In that people would normally be pretty happy to just go along with most things, but once you have a portion of the "elite" who feel ambitious but shorted, they will naturally fan the flames of whatever disagreements exist in an effort to gain power.
Yes, I also think this competition is not necessarily bad, it just has to be resolved in such a way that it does not endanger the state itself. Right now, the competition between political parties is often not about good ideas and ability, but instead about defamation of the political opponent.

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I think it's fair to say that a major weakness of democracy is that just because you voted for it doesn't mean it'll happen.

Consider Brexit: even if someone is for, against or ambivalent, they probably agree that it would be nice if the British Parliament hadn't been massively tied up with it for the last 3 years.

Consider Greece: the Syriza party campaigned a few years ago on what might be called a 'no austerity' policy. People voted them in. The European central bank (or whatever it's called) then said 'no austerity, no money.' And lo, there was austerity.

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Re migration: one very important thing to remember is that migrants buy stuff. Things like food and clothes and cars and trips to the movies. If they have children then that's a whole lot more spending and integration into the community. It's not a zero sum game. But if someone campaigns on 'migrants take your jobs' they mysteriously fail to mention this fact.

Re 'ghettos': that's a very loaded term. Before you complain "oh, those <insert ethnic group here> all clump together and speak strange languages and eat strange food," just think "what would I do in their place?"

I moved to a non-English speaking country for a few years, and it was really nice to be able to find a locksmith or a bank teller or a hairdresser or whatever who spoke my language. I could relax for a bit (turns out I'm not good at learning languages). And I made friends who also spoke English. (Note, I was part of an 'expat community' rather than a 'ghetto' because a) I was earning enough money to live in a nice little town and b) I'm white.) So what I did was to form a little English speaking bubble just like many people complain about. But what I also did - and I think we can respectfully ask the immigrants in our communities to do as well - is at least try to learn the language, and learn some of the customs, and acknowledge that we are living in a host country and just because something's different doesn't mean it's wrong.

If you fear some kind of demographic overtaking, I suggest that you campaign now for strong legal protections for those of differing faiths, genders, sexual proclivities (e.g. not criminalising premarital sex) etc. That way, when things do change there are protections for you already in place.

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To lurch back towards the alleged topic, immigrating to a Loroi settlement might be pretty tough because (at least based on what we've seen so far) you can't learn to be telepathic. The local service providers (of whatever stripe) might be uncomfortable speaking to you and/or always think you're out to scam them. I think Arioch has indicated that most recent Loroi births have been allocated to the military and I guess then that the civilian population will skew a little older.

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kiwi wrote:Re migration: one very important thing to remember is that migrants buy stuff. Things like food and clothes and cars and trips to the movies. If they have children then that's a whole lot more spending and integration into the community. It's not a zero sum game. But if someone campaigns on 'migrants take your jobs' they mysteriously fail to mention this fact.
That's good for the capitalist class, but since most 3rd world immigrants aren't actually gainfully employed it just means that the working and middle class are paying taxes that go to immigrants that then go to buy products, causing the increased demand for those products to increase the price for the working and middle class. In effect, this again hits them coming and going.
kiwi wrote:Re 'ghettos': that's a very loaded term. Before you complain "oh, those <insert ethnic group here> all clump together and speak strange languages and eat strange food," just think "what would I do in their place?"
Well, most whites can't do that because it's expressly prohibited by law and socially prohibited through repression in western countries, while non-white ethnic groups are encouraged to do so and face no legal problems for doing so.
kiwi wrote:I moved to a non-English speaking country for a few years, and it was really nice to be able to find a locksmith or a bank teller or a hairdresser or whatever who spoke my language. I could relax for a bit (turns out I'm not good at learning languages). And I made friends who also spoke English. (Note, I was part of an 'expat community' rather than a 'ghetto' because a) I was earning enough money to live in a nice little town and b) I'm white.) So what I did was to form a little English speaking bubble just like many people complain about. But what I also did - and I think we can respectfully ask the immigrants in our communities to do as well - is at least try to learn the language, and learn some of the customs, and acknowledge that we are living in a host country and just because something's different doesn't mean it's wrong.
Why should they care to learn the language, if those who speak it are conjectured to be a minority eventually anyway?
kiwi wrote:If you fear some kind of demographic overtaking, I suggest that you campaign now for strong legal protections for those of differing faiths, genders, sexual proclivities (e.g. not criminalising premarital sex) etc. That way, when things do change there are protections for you already in place.
Those protections are currently in place but have, like in the US, been explicitly denied whites. (And the supreme court has upheld this legal interpretation in terms of, for example, college admissions.) And going by the present state of politics that only seems likely to worsen if you are white. It seems far more workable to have a middle class/working class campaign for the ending of immigration and the repatriation of those immigrant populations that are already here and ethnically foreign. The de-criminalization of premarital sex has had no positive impact on the european population growth, so I'm not sure why you would suggest that. In fact, looking at the implementation of the liberal policies that you mention, every single last one of has been implemented in western nations, and in every single western nation the indigenous population has moved towards negative population growth.
Though, interestingly, that negative population growth is not universal, at least not in the united states. Right-wing / conservative whites are actually reproducing, but left-wing progressive whites are collapsing. As such, the future of western politics seem to be one in which it will be white right-wingers (a mix of germans anglos and italians) vs non-white left-wingers (mainly hispanics). (With a tiny minority of each population crossing between political isles.) It will be a turbulent time, luckily I won't be alive to see it.
kiwi wrote:To lurch back towards the alleged topic, immigrating to a Loroi settlement might be pretty tough because (at least based on what we've seen so far) you can't learn to be telepathic. The local service providers (of whatever stripe) might be uncomfortable speaking to you and/or always think you're out to scam them. I think Arioch has indicated that most recent Loroi births have been allocated to the military and I guess then that the civilian population will skew a little older.
Sounds like those Loroi need to check their telepathic privilege and stop it with these anti-human bigotries.

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kiwi wrote:Re 'ghettos': that's a very loaded term. Before you complain "oh, those <insert ethnic group here> all clump together and speak strange languages and eat strange food," just think "what would I do in their place?"

... and I think we can respectfully ask the immigrants in our communities to do as well - is at least try to learn the language, and learn some of the customs, and acknowledge that we are living in a host country and just because something's different doesn't mean it's wrong.
Which they by and large DO, despite sound bites and social media shares to the contrary. Just because someone is speaking another language around you doesn't mean they don't know your language too. This is especially true of the 2nd and 3rd generations. Immigrants (legal an otherwise) are statistically less likely to be a burden to "the state" than citizens/born-heres.
kiwi wrote: If you fear some kind of demographic overtaking, I suggest that you campaign now for strong legal protections for those of differing faiths, genders, sexual proclivities (e.g. not criminalising premarital sex) etc. That way, when things do change there are protections for you already in place.
Right. I don't care what cultural or linguistic values you bring to this country, as long as you are working to better the society and keep moving it to a fair and just democracy for all to and uphold the law and values of the Constitution - including ALL the amendments. (And yes, I know that interpretation is always going to be a bone of contention, but the current administration and its enablers aside, at least we generally have had a basic set of facts and baseline government we can agree on here in the USA.)

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To lurch back towards the alleged topic, immigrating to a Loroi settlement might be pretty tough because (at least based on what we've seen so far) you can't learn to be telepathic. The local service providers (of whatever stripe) might be uncomfortable speaking to you and/or always think you're out to scam them. I think Arioch has indicated that most recent Loroi births have been allocated to the military and I guess then that the civilian population will skew a little older.[/quote]

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cacambo43 wrote:Which they by and large DO, despite sound bites and social media shares to the contrary. Just because someone is speaking another language around you doesn't mean they don't know your language too. This is especially true of the 2nd and 3rd generations. Immigrants (legal an otherwise) are statistically less likely to be a burden to "the state" than citizens/born-heres.
That's certainly not the case in my country. Here, both 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants are a burden on the welfare state, in that they are taking more out of the system than they are putting in, and I am not aware of any 1st world nation where that is not the case.
cacambo43 wrote:Right. I don't care what cultural or linguistic values you bring to this country, as long as you are working to better the society and keep moving it to a fair and just democracy for all to and uphold the law and values of the Constitution - including ALL the amendments. (And yes, I know that interpretation is always going to be a bone of contention, but the current administration and its enablers aside, at least we generally have had a basic set of facts and baseline government we can agree on here in the USA.)
Why should non-white immigrants care about laws made by white people for white people? I think you are making an unfair demand here, that your way of organizing your society is the one best suited to these immigrants. And your statement about bettering society reveals your bias. These immigrants may well prefer the new society they're building, that they improve your society by ignoring the law and values of the constitution.

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