One of the big fallacies of the globalization-critic camp is that multicultural cities are inevitably hell. I've visited many, they aren't. Racial and ethnic conflict exists, but it is at best sublimated and often peripheral based on the populations. People in the mixing pot cities are all together in a strange blend, everyone living their own atomized life like oil drops in a sea of competing ones. But the great idea of what was supposed to happen, the second Yugoslavia, has thus far not yet materialized. Those frictions require great unifying forces to coalesce the populations into ethno-racial camps, and most of the multicult states have not yet felt such large social forces.
So we can say the hellfire of armageddon has not yet happened. But it's still a terrible way to organize society. Why? The Putnam effect. Ethnic nepotism and ingroup bais. Competing visions of how society should function. Zero sum politics where one group gains and the other loses.
The pox of the multicultural states is the slow rot of social capital. It's the fact that people think differently, nobody has a social network larger than a handful of individuals, and that indivduals are constantly alienated. Alienated almost in a marxian sense, only it's ethnic. People can never feel comfortable around odd threatening characters, so they never feel completely at home. The odd off-setting creates a sort of confused social notion which often manifests in the disturbed urban art and deteriorating sense of community standards. There's no super-organism of the polity often, because there's no majority voice in many areas. A person goes from being the dominant ethny to a localized minority in a matter of minutes, and various other things. How can you speak for the population totally when you have such little in common? When the mirror has so many hair-line splits and fractures? Well you can't, outside broad generalizations which mean nothing. Platitudes and notions nobody really believes, because it's supposed to be pleasing to everyone.
The grey death of the cities will take 50 years, but by the end it'll be shitty rat utopia. People will have the amenities, but they'll have cultural death. Their culture and god will be degeneracy, because vice is something people resort to when their shared vision of society is in ruins. Outside of the zones which have already done the logical and reproduced their home native culture, that is. Of course that's stunning and brave, it's just that white people "have no culture". Just how I see it.
What does the future of the grey death really look like?