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Originally Posted by Thunderball
Is society "too" open, or is societal ambivalence leading to "cultural islands" and the negative consequences? Is the solution to be more openminded, or less.
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Or does the prejudice show towards groups lead to cultural islands or ghettos (in the historical sense)? Do these cultural islands form because people for safer/more secure when not being subjected to bigoty?
I'm just wondering about the other side of that coin.
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