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Intermarried elites reach equilibrium above the states, turning warfare from innovation into population control and court politics into factional struggle over hierarchy.
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Intermarriage
Intermarried elites reach equilibrium above the states, turning warfare from innovation into population control and court politics into factional struggle over hierarchy.
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He says marriage patterns intensify the disparity: East Asian women are far more likely than East Asian men to marry white partners, leaving many young East Asian men single.
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Ezra proves loyalty to God through purity: Jews must not intermarry with foreign religions or peoples.
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For most of human history, Jiang argues, people did not use modern categories of race, culture, ethnicity, borders, and states; Viking identity was fluid and alliance-based.
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Byzantine diplomacy worked through intermarriage, bribery, and religious conversion, offering Viking rulers legitimacy, imperial marriage, and military alliance in exchange for service and Orthodox Christianity.
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Intermarriage is a political technology: kings and princes use marriages to form alliances, but marriage can also require religious conversion.
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Jiang distinguishes Samaritans as Israelites who stayed and adapted through intermarriage and multiple faiths, while Babylonian Jews became more radical about one faith.
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"...choose to work together okay how do you work together by intermarriage okay intermarriage and the idea of intermarriage creates the idea of equilibrium..."
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"intermarry with each other okay they have a new equilibrium so they are above the above the state does it make sense guys all..."
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"That's why you were meritocracy. You only promoted the best and the brightest. Once you reach an equilibrium, you don't have to do that,..."
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"All right. So if you look at marriage patterns, there's also discrimination against East Asian men, okay? So 20 % of East Asian women..."
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"After all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that You, our God, have punished us..."
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"Okay, so now God's forgiven us. We've returned to Judaism. We can't screw this up again, okay? And how do we prove our loyalty..."
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"...anything you're not clear about? Okay. Okay. So the idea of intermarriage, okay? What's the idea of intermarriage? Okay. So what's really hard for..."
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"They didn't think we're Vikings, we are not Greeks, we're not Jews, we're not that way. The Germans broke the sorry, the Vikings their..."
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"...was not through the military but through diplomacy through bribery through intermarriages. Okay? So the Vikings in Kiev the Byzantines made an offer. We..."
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"...area. Okay? Does that make sense? And that's the idea of intermarriage. To form a political alliance that benefits you. And ultimately if you..."
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"point in the Levant there are still Israelites living there and they are now call this the Samaritans okay and then you have the..."
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"...way around this is you have some old techniques. You have intermarriage, right? And then you have religion, or what we call secret societies."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
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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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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's claim that Jewish identity is not treated here as simple continuity from ancient Israel, but as a Persian imperial construction: a Bible-shaped, temple-centered, purity-bound people made to stabilize and...
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A source-grounded reading of Cyrus as the foreign messiah: exile hardens Israelite memory, Persian mercy becomes a strategy of rule, Zoroastrianism turns administration into cosmic truth, and Ezra's purity project prepares the religious machinery...
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