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This subject may lead to heated discussion so I'll post it here in its own thread. I'm not an expert on American history so I may have some details wrong.
Suggestion for new civic:
MULTICULTURALISM (in the Society civic list)
prerequisite: Minority Rights tech
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background: in 1965, at the height of the Cold War, the USA adopted the Civil Rights Act and a more liberal immigration policy. At that time, communism was going strong worldwide and considered extremely dangerous. For those that are too young to have lived during the Cold War: communism was as fanatical as Islamic State today except more bloodthirsty and armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons. During the 20th century, communist leaders like Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot together killed a hundred million people.
In 1965, A third of the world's population was already under communist rule, and many more third world countries were more sympathetic towards the Soviet Union than towards the West. At that time, the USA had racial segregation laws, and only allowed immigration from European countries. Soviet propaganda targeted various third world countries and successfully painted the West as imperialist and racist, and Western propaganda had no effective answer to that. Soviet agents also continually worked on stirring up race riots in the USA itself in order to weaken it.
USA politicians feared a future nightmare scenario in which the West would be politically isolated and surrounded by a world wide communist alliance, and decided to take preventive action to actively disarm the Soviet propaganda. All racial segregation laws (called Jim Crow laws) were abolished, and replaced by programs to favor ethnic minorities. The Europeans-only immigration policy was replaced by a world wide immigration policy. The main politician behind this immigration policy change, Senator Ted Kennedy, explained that the purpose of this policy change was not to change the ethnic makeup of the USA (which was 90% European at that time) but to thoroughly counter accusations of racism from the rest of the world. However, in practice it did change the ethnic makeup of the USA considerably, with white people nowadays being a minority among newborns in the USA.
Hispanics, who were only 3.2% of the USA population in 1960, migrated in masses, and are already close to becoming the majority in several US states, and are expected to form 27% of the total USA population in 2050, threatening the dominance of the English language (*).
(*) source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans
Europe followed the USA in multiculturalism, and combined with a more generous welfare system, this led to mass immigration from Africa and the Middle East. Many major European cities that were ethnically and culturally homogenous for centuries, received rapidly growing getto's, to the point that the native Europeans are soon becoming a minority in those cities. In these ghetto's, unemployment and crime runs high, and more and more Europeans think that multiculturalism is giving them a very bad deal.
For decades, European natives who dissented against mass immigration were targeted by Political Correctness and socially ostrasized, to the point that even the police were reluctant to investigate criminals of foreign origin, for fear of being called racist (google Rotherham Child Sex Scandal where the British police refused to investigate hardcore Pakistani criminals for fear of being called racist and lose their jobs).
However, at this moment, anger about multiculturalism has reached such height among native Europeans (at least in my country) that Political Correctness is rapidly losing its influence, and here and in several other European countries there are regular street protests of various groups, against "islamization", immigration from the third world in general, "traitor" politicians and the "Luegenpresse" (liar press).
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Let's talk game rules.
Proposed advantages of the Multiculturalism civic:
-most important: big bonus (+8 ?) to relations with every other civ.
-bonus to culture in every city (+40%?)
- +1 foreign trade route
Proposed disadvantages of the Multiculturalism civic:
-every turn, a small part of the culture in every city should be changed to the culture of a neighbouring civ. That means that if a civ runs this civic long enough, it should see its border cities flip over to another civ. Think southern USA states defecting to the Spanish civ (Mexico).
-a major increase in crime as any criticism of criminal minorities is frowned upon, and migrants probably have less loyalty to their new civ.
-increased city upkeep cost due to higher demand on welfare and affirmative action programs.
Remarks:
-effect on pop growth: modest. The pop growth from immigration is partially compensated for by the fact that higher demand on welfare leads to higher taxes which leads to lower birth rates among the original population.
AI behaviour: as this is a very unbalanced and dangerous civic, with relations bonus being its main benefit, it should only be used by civs that are the most impopular in the world, to be determined by averaging their relations numbers with all known other civs. By the time this civic becomes available, every civ probably has contact with every other civ.
Suggestion for new civic:
MULTICULTURALISM (in the Society civic list)
prerequisite: Minority Rights tech
==============================
background: in 1965, at the height of the Cold War, the USA adopted the Civil Rights Act and a more liberal immigration policy. At that time, communism was going strong worldwide and considered extremely dangerous. For those that are too young to have lived during the Cold War: communism was as fanatical as Islamic State today except more bloodthirsty and armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons. During the 20th century, communist leaders like Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot together killed a hundred million people.
In 1965, A third of the world's population was already under communist rule, and many more third world countries were more sympathetic towards the Soviet Union than towards the West. At that time, the USA had racial segregation laws, and only allowed immigration from European countries. Soviet propaganda targeted various third world countries and successfully painted the West as imperialist and racist, and Western propaganda had no effective answer to that. Soviet agents also continually worked on stirring up race riots in the USA itself in order to weaken it.
USA politicians feared a future nightmare scenario in which the West would be politically isolated and surrounded by a world wide communist alliance, and decided to take preventive action to actively disarm the Soviet propaganda. All racial segregation laws (called Jim Crow laws) were abolished, and replaced by programs to favor ethnic minorities. The Europeans-only immigration policy was replaced by a world wide immigration policy. The main politician behind this immigration policy change, Senator Ted Kennedy, explained that the purpose of this policy change was not to change the ethnic makeup of the USA (which was 90% European at that time) but to thoroughly counter accusations of racism from the rest of the world. However, in practice it did change the ethnic makeup of the USA considerably, with white people nowadays being a minority among newborns in the USA.
Hispanics, who were only 3.2% of the USA population in 1960, migrated in masses, and are already close to becoming the majority in several US states, and are expected to form 27% of the total USA population in 2050, threatening the dominance of the English language (*).
(*) source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans
Europe followed the USA in multiculturalism, and combined with a more generous welfare system, this led to mass immigration from Africa and the Middle East. Many major European cities that were ethnically and culturally homogenous for centuries, received rapidly growing getto's, to the point that the native Europeans are soon becoming a minority in those cities. In these ghetto's, unemployment and crime runs high, and more and more Europeans think that multiculturalism is giving them a very bad deal.
For decades, European natives who dissented against mass immigration were targeted by Political Correctness and socially ostrasized, to the point that even the police were reluctant to investigate criminals of foreign origin, for fear of being called racist (google Rotherham Child Sex Scandal where the British police refused to investigate hardcore Pakistani criminals for fear of being called racist and lose their jobs).
However, at this moment, anger about multiculturalism has reached such height among native Europeans (at least in my country) that Political Correctness is rapidly losing its influence, and here and in several other European countries there are regular street protests of various groups, against "islamization", immigration from the third world in general, "traitor" politicians and the "Luegenpresse" (liar press).
==================================
Let's talk game rules.
Proposed advantages of the Multiculturalism civic:
-most important: big bonus (+8 ?) to relations with every other civ.
-bonus to culture in every city (+40%?)
- +1 foreign trade route
Proposed disadvantages of the Multiculturalism civic:
-every turn, a small part of the culture in every city should be changed to the culture of a neighbouring civ. That means that if a civ runs this civic long enough, it should see its border cities flip over to another civ. Think southern USA states defecting to the Spanish civ (Mexico).
-a major increase in crime as any criticism of criminal minorities is frowned upon, and migrants probably have less loyalty to their new civ.
-increased city upkeep cost due to higher demand on welfare and affirmative action programs.
Remarks:
-effect on pop growth: modest. The pop growth from immigration is partially compensated for by the fact that higher demand on welfare leads to higher taxes which leads to lower birth rates among the original population.
AI behaviour: as this is a very unbalanced and dangerous civic, with relations bonus being its main benefit, it should only be used by civs that are the most impopular in the world, to be determined by averaging their relations numbers with all known other civs. By the time this civic becomes available, every civ probably has contact with every other civ.
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