Posted on 05/13/2008 8:07:35 AM PDT by yankeedame
Secondly, yes, I forgot, London IS England.Actually, I thought it was the major city of 8 million, which leaves about 40 million in England who dont live in London...
First, I was replying to a poster, not you, who was discussing "Londonistan" which has a Muslim population of around 10%. Get it? Not "UKistan", not "Englandistan" but "Londonistan". Can you see why my posting of the percentage of Muslims in London was much more relevant than the previously posted percentage of Muslims in England?
Second, it is totally untrue that "all cities in history have been multicultural, thats their nature by definition." In fact, that's one of the silliest things I've seen posted. You might want to look at current places like Tokyo with a population of over 12 million who ethnically are 99.5+% Japanese. There are many other modern examples let alone the fact that historically many cities were monocultural.
Thanks for playing, though.
No need to be so sneery and pompous,never make a statement that be counterargued?. You want to tell me Im wrong, fine. No need for the superiority.
Ok, not all cities in history, but most. ‘All’ was I admit a gross overstatement and sloppy history on my part. But going back to the days of the Romans, Greeks and even further back, cities usually have been places where disparate groups of different races, religions and cultures met and meet to trade and some to live within those cities.
I would also strongly disagree that ‘most cities’ have historically been mono-cultural.Look at the great cities of history and today and you will find that most cities, not all,but most have not been mono-cultural. Perhaps not a mass of multi-culture with no prominent racial/cultural group, but certainly even if one group is larger and predominates the others, these cities have always had a sizeable immigrant minority. In past time, they came as traders, now they come merely as economic migrants.
Ancient Rome or Athens,medieval Paris or modern London...
Perhaps multicultural IS the wrong term, I would and should have said multi-racial, I will happily grant you that.
Take a look at your first post to me in reply to my simple statement of fact...and then look up the word projection.
they've already passed a de facto ban for Katana and Wakizashi there. So knives are next after guns and swords.
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