...the rest of us on this board want to preserve/protect European (or European-derived) civilization and values
I really can't follow you down this path. I don't think there's any threat to European civilization at all. If anything, the rest of the world is turning into a European civilization clone. What countries don't have their own stock exchanges? In 10 years will that list not be a good deal shorter? Everybody listens to Western music and watches Western TV shows and movies. Look for this to accelerate: almost everyone in the world aspires to be middle-class.
I think that means we will, within 50 or 100 years, have a near-total lack of diversity to call upon. There will no longer be bushmen to study unless you want to watch them eat TV dinners while plugged into whatever electronic media prevails at that time. You will have to work hard to determine if someone lives in China or America. The differences between citizens all over the world (by todays standards) will shrink.
The war is over, and we won it.
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the more I think about this, the more it bothers me
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