“By 2050, only 5 percent of the world will be European.”—Russel Shorto
When mass immigration makes a society more ethnically diverse, the narratives that maintain social order shift from traditional ones to abstract ones. Blood and soil make place for equality and diversity. But when a people becomes too diverse, e.g. when the dominant culture becomes a minority culture, the inevitable realization takes root that one is no longer one people, but many.
We can observe the collapse of social order in real-time in the present-day United States. Demographics play a leading role. In 1965, non-Hispanic whites represented over 80% of the total population. Down to about 65%, Pew Research projects white Americans will become a minority by 2040.1 By that time, newborn children of white parents will represent less than 25% of all births. Since 2015, non-white births already outnumbered white births.2
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