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As you point out yourself later in the comment, this is cherry-picking the dregs of society. Actually Singapore is majority Chinese, so I'm guessing (as per standard HBD thinking) their dregs would behave better. But then, the original context of your comment was about the demographic replacement of Western White Americans by Latinos, whose dregs I assume behave even worse (as per standard HBD thinking - also those cartel atrocity videos like Funky Town come to mind)
Could you expand on this? I'm guessing you are thinking of Western "degeneracy" here (feminism, gay marriage, gender-affirming care, soft-on-crime policies, etc), but I won't put words in your mouth.
Right, but stepping back a little, all of this (your job, your home, etc) doesn't exist without the UK - which was (mostly) built by White people, and who play an essential role in maintaining it the present day.
If we look at the rest of the world, empirically it seems that non-(White/East Asian) races, on a group level, are unable to build or even maintain high civilisation (Singapore didn't just "copy British Insitutitons on Independence", it is also ~75% Han Chinese!) - importantly, even if you are a talented individual, you still need to go to a 1st world country to get a well-paid job (as I understand it, this is why you are here in the UK)
And there's also a bunch of "personality" things that are nice: politeness, honesty, quietness, individualism, etc.
So I argue that you should like the Western peoples, because as a group they allow you to realise your talents and enjoy a much higher quality of life than you would have had if they had never existed in the first place.
I guess I'm basically just asking the cliched "if you hate it so much here, why don't you just go back to where you came from?", but in good faith as a non-rhetorical question (I remember you've been asked this before, and replied something along the lines that you need to be here for salary reasons, whilst disliking the native people, and I'm challenging the idea that these 2 things are unrelated to each other)
I'm not sure latino dregs would necessarily behave worse than western dregs. Yes they have cartel problems right now; the UK also used to have highwayman problems in the past but that went away as society developed and conditions improved. See Ireland for example: back when it was poor people thought average IQ there was genetically 90, now they think it's genetically 100 because it has developed and it turns out there's no significant cognitive difference between the Irish and Brits; cross country IQ studies are highly highly confounded.
Yes I am not a fan of western degeneracy. My job actually does exist outside the UK and exists more and more outside the UK each year (gulf countries, singapore, hong kong etc.). I just don't move for other reasons, like I said, I like the UK, except the people and the consenquences these people then impose on me (like crazy high tax). If things were to go above a tipping point then yes I'd consider moving.
I'd also say the gulf countries have managed to build and maintain high civilisation. Yes, that's because they basically got a money printer in the form of oil to allow them to do it but they have shown that provided enough money they can do it.
Yes, Singapore is 75% Han Chinese but it's 25% Malay+Indian as well, which is well more than the 13% Black the US is and Singapore managed to actually integrate its three main ethnic groups in a way the US never even got close to doing with blacks. LKY really was a great man here but the reason eh was able to do so was because he pushed and enforced policies upon the country that led to this happening in a way that would never ever have been accepted by individualistic western citizens: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FkYEFeHUGPw
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India does build high civilization. It utterly fails to make its dregs benefit from it- they worship toilets instead of using them- but they're quite capable of building it.
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