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Jiang's description of modern open immigration as a contingent response to settler-colonial needs rather than a universal principle.
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Historical accident
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...cannot be averted. Listen, I personally think that China is a historical accident, okay? There are many things about China that should have been..."
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diagnosis
Jiang calls China a historical accident whose long continuity depended on geographic insulation from the rest of the world rather than sustained civilizational superiority in open competition.
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Jiang treats the global reserve currency not as a timeless necessity but as an accidental outcome of World War II that let the United States impose one currency as the basis for global value.
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Jiang concludes from the liberalism passage that democracy was only a historical accident suited to an earlier America and that liberalism will become a bad, overly divisive system in the future.
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He calls American immigration a historical accident: the United States welcomed European immigrants because it needed settlers to displace natives, farm, industrialize, and fill a large territory.
model
He says mass society is a historical accident requiring artificial elites, even though the elites are not actually better than ordinary people.
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"...cannot be averted. Listen, I personally think that China is a historical accident, okay? There are many things about China that should have been..."
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"...has this happened before. Why did it happen? Because of an accident of World War II when the Americans won and could impose their..."
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"It was good for America before, but in the future, liberalism will probably be a bad thing, okay, because it's too divisive. Okay? So..."
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"So they started to chart new areas. Okay? Spain and Portugal primarily. And what they discovered was there's all this new territory in South..."
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"...as well. So in other words, immigration today, it is a historical accident. The Americans were responding to the specific needs of that time...."
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"...supposed to have mass society. And mass society is completely an accident, a historical accident. But when you have mass society, what happens is..."
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"...but the u.s dollar as a global reserve currency it's a historical accident and it's never happened before in human history and quite honestly..."
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"...a huge advantage over everyone else. Okay? Now, because of a historical accident called the Bronze Age Collapse, the Israelites came into being. Okay?..."
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"...leader. It's just stuck being the world leader because of these historical accidents. It doesn't make sense. So all, basically all Russia is trying..."
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"...Okay, so what he's saying here is that democracy was a historical accident."
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"...over time. Remember, the nation of Israel was founded as a historical accident. It was because of the Bronze Age collapse. Historically, the Levant..."
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