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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
Jiang's description of modern open immigration as a contingent response to settler-colonial needs rather than a universal principle.
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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.
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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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"...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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"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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"...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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"...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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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on immigration as a game: school success is not status, rule-following can become a trap, fertility and cohesion beat obedience, and America's open-society ideal begins as a settler...
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