Mass immigration creates short-term GDP bursts but degrades Canada's social capital, trust, cohesion, and already fragile national identity.
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National Identity
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Key Notes
Jiang uses Japan's reverse-parking norm and Mongol invasion resistance as evidence of unusually strong social cohesion.
The judges are interpreted as local heroes who bring other tribes into the Bible's cosmology by giving each group an ancestor or deity inside Israel's story.
Jiang argues that strategems travel poorly onto the international stage because they assume a shared cultural outlook; speeches matter more because they reveal and coordinate national personality.
Jiang argues the open-society idea has become extreme when any desire for community, balance, or national identity is treated as racist or backward.
Jiang says Iran will retain sovereignty, rebuild with financing from control over the Strait of Hormuz, and eventually emerge stronger, more coherent, and more militarily capable.
He says the Chinese government has responded over the past five to ten years by re-emphasizing Confucian values and Chinese national identity.
Jiang argues that China, Russia, and other countries are now facing identity crises because their elites have been globalized while their broader populations still want a national identity.
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"the ir personality Okay So that 's the first difference Sec ond difference is that when you read S ang Wei Yi The Rom..."
"we've reached an extreme where, um, to have any, um, sense of community, to want to belong to a group is considered racist and,..."
"And, quite honestly, the Europeans did, did not have the capacity to absorb these millions, tens of millions of refugees. But Angela Merkel, the..."
"from Canada and there are a lot of Canadians who hate the liberal government of Canada because they're very authoritarian and I'm, I'm one..."
"...they will control Homs. They will have a more vibrant, coherent national identity, and they will have upgraded a lot of their military capacity...."
"...great emphasis on Confucian values. There's a great emphasis on Chinese national identity. And so there's this conflict going on. You know, and I..."
"...globalized. But at the same time, their people strive for a national identity."
"So I'm very thankful for Canada and for Yale. So again, we're really thankful for the opportunity to come. But the reality is there's..."
"Japan underwent tremendous social change to go from a feudal society into a modern industrial nation that, in 1905, was able to defeat a..."
"But everyone else reverse parks. There's no law that says you must reverse park. Everyone just does it because of a sense of social..."
"...make sense? And this is, and this creates the sense of national identity and national unity that still persists today. All right? And that's..."
"...so convoluted, contradictory, and complex. Because they're trying to create a national identity where everyone, all tribes, all, everyone is able to contribute effectively..."
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