Immigration and Multiculturalism - Mark Krikorian

Excerpts from: 'Uncommon Knowledge - Immigration with Mark Krikorian'
Full video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRgUL4Xz68Y

In the video Mark Krikorian explains why mass immigration is fundamentally incompatible with a modern society. How multiculturalism, modern technology, globalization and more has stagnated and prevented assimilation of immigrant population into their host cultures and thus unbalanced social cohesion. Mark Krikorian also goes into the economic issues and debunks some myths about immigration's donation to the economy and growth.


Here's part of what he says, taken from the transcript of the video:

What's not changed is the immigrants. What's changed is us. Because a century ago, or two centuries ago, the people who came here from abroad were actually very similar to those coming here today. They're coming from rural areas, small towns, from countries that were not very developed, and they're the same kinds of people in a sense. They're usually not the poorest of the poor, they're one step up from that, people with a little get up and go. Because it's a big deal even today to you know, leave your country and go somewhere else.
What's changed though is us. Modernity, over the past century has effected changes
that are so fundamental that our entire situation has changed. First of all, we live in a post-industrial knowledge-based economy. We now have a welfare state, not even just a welfare state, but a large government sector in all respects. The government now spends a third or more of national income. Schools, roads, everything as well as welfare and such [inaudible]. Communications and transportation technology has shrunk the world, which again is a good thing in a lot of ways, clearly, but makes the equation for assimilation and for security very different from anything in the past. Likewise in modern societies the elites lose a lot of the cultural self confidence necessary that we saw a hundred years ago, that successfully got immigrants to become more like us rather than us like them. And so the point is we've basically outgrown immigration, in a whole variety of ways, and it's something that worked for us before, and it just doesn't work now.
The simplistic idea of more people is always resulting in more prosperity is wrong, and that's essentially what they're saying. But they're also shooting down a straw man, saying that there's a no growth kind of anti-human element that you know, if you want to limit immigration, that's somehow bad. The fact is immigration is a government program that we need to shape in such a way as that it serves the interest of the United States. When you're taking in, into a modern society like ours, a post-industrial society, nineteenth century immigrants into a twenty first century society, it just doesn't work very well. Now it's not that they're not gonna be able to eat. Obviously, immigrants come here to work, and they do get work, they also increase the size of the economy, there's no question about it. Immigrants create more economic output, but they almost, they have a bigger piece of the pie, they eat the whole bigger piece of the pie
There is a net, a very small net economic benefit caused by immigration. What happens is immigrants push down the wages of lower skilled Americans, and that economic benefit is then spread across the other 90% of society. Essentially, the poor see a 5% drop in their income, everybody else sees a two tenths of a percent increase in their income, their effective earnings. So it's kind of a moral question. Is it right to beggar the poor for the benefit of everybody else? It's a redistributionistic...

And it goes on...

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• Immigration
• Multiculturalism
• illegal
• immigrants
• population
• costs
• welfare
• fairness
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[Nasiruddin84]

I agree with his stance that unskilled immigration is especially bad for the poorer shifts in society. The problem Mr Kerkorian doesn't speak about is the large uncontrolled influx of illegal immigrants that even more drive down wages and opportunities for unskilled Americans. Thats the influx that must be curbed. After all he leads the debate mostly on terms of budget. This is bullcrap. If you're really concerning with Uncle Sam's money

[Joniversity]

@Nasiruddin84 You should see the whole video. He does go into more detail there.

[JewsInUranus]

why isnt the krikorian family deported? they should have never been allowed to enter the us. soviet bums. kind of hypocritical of him to stay here when he wants to limit ALL immigration. why didnt he stay in armenia and work to make it better country?

keep beating up the mexicans for being the dark irish of today.at least they gave us tequila and tacos. i say no to any 21st century isolationist.

[KumarZimmerman08]

Multiculturalism is an anti-European hate-ideology designed to deconstruct European cultures and traditions, European identities, European Christendom and Even European nation states. And, as such, it is an evil genocidal ideology created for the sole purpose of annihilation everything European.

[Egghead123123123]

@GlobalChangeAgent They do their research. Have you?

[Egghead123123123]

Whoever says that illegal immigration promotes diversity has to be too busy smoking weed. Most illegal aliens are just across the border from Mexico.What these illegal aliens can do is go back to their country and start a political party. Heck, they might just end their pathetic drug problem. Mexico is corrupt because the people are too busy illegally immigrating. And they do not know English so we have to pay English teachers to teach these illiterates. Now do we need Mexico? I do not think so.

[Egghead123123123]

@TheStrawberryLolicon He wants to decrease illegal immigration but treat the legal immigrants better. That is very logical. I have reason to believe that illegal aliens hurt American more than contribute to them. I am a legal immigrant myself and I have witnessed that illegal aliens get more welfare than us. They left Mexico after they are done milking it. And then they come to the US to see what the US can do for them. They are the opposite of patriots.

[GlobalChangeAgent]

I hate the so called experts who tell only half the truth, leaving out the role of our imperialistic government and their hedonistic practices in the creation of the problem we currently have in the US. These people in suits and ties can be expected to give their intellectual answers, implicitly blaming the victim, while offering little no real humanitarian responses. We want change, then stop taking the resources and spreading war that makes life unliviable in their country.

[kerthialfad]

The numbers today are so high. Technology allows people to travel here easily. We are 3rd most population nation, after China and India.

[Joniversity]

@JulianThePhilosopher Well i hope, in the name of "Jewish Pride" that he's the one who made the choices that made Singapore so successful despite all the difficulties.

[JulianThePhilosopher]

@Joniversity hey jonny did u know that singapore's first prime minister is david marshall a jew!! lol i just found out today.