I have a clarifying (to me) question: When you say "MC" and "integration" and "The US has eschewed xyz", what scale and mechanisms provide your context?
By scale, I mean spectra like from interpersonal <-> US culture and city ordinance <-> Constitution, borrowing tools from neighbors <-> credit default swaps, etc. By mechanisms I mean things like your two examples of common currency and agreements like the EU, but also things like common law, options for incorporation, tax-exemption, licensing, guest worker programs, the electoral college, etc. It's just not clear to me where your question's coming from. Owen Densmore wrote circa 11-08-09 09:38 AM: > They are: > - Multiculturalism (MC). > - Euro monitory union without political union. > > As I understand it, MC is based on "separate but equal", a horrid phrase > used here during the segregation era, but within europe may simply be a > welcoming phrase meaning "come, and you do not have to change abruptly > to local cultural values". The US has eschewed MC for "integration", > which has its own problems and forces a generation-long battle with > local bigotry. But as difficult as integration is, it seems to > ultimately be successful and avoids the horrid anomaly I read of: A > muslim husband was pardoned by a judge for beating his wife because MC > allows breadth of law to include muslim practice. All of which I > suspect was completely misunderstood from start to finish! > > The euro strikes closer to home, and as I mentioned earlier, I fear is > the real financial problem we face. But I feel doomed by the euro debt > problem simply because it's half an economy! I don't understand how an > economic union can exist, at the scale of the EU, without political > unity as well. I know of large trade pacts that work to some degree, > but they can always dissolve, and have power over their fiscal policy. > > So the questions are how can either MC or a non-political euro work? -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
