Spyke

Hmm. I'm a multibillionaire with an empathy deficit and borderline psychotic tendencies, and I'm in a perpetual pissing contest with my fellow billionaires. I wonder if I should let the masses take away some of my money through tax to spend on education and healthcare, or spend a fraction of that amount sowing division and mistrust and duping the plebs into blaming other plebs for their problems, which are, in fact, mainly due to me hoarding excessive wealth. Tricky.

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It's not a coincidence that social media was flooded with bots shilling One Nation and the party started rising in the polls after Gina the Hutt (Gina Rinehart, Australia's richest person) decided she was done with the Coalition and went to Mar-a-Lago late last year.

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This seems to be a pattern, a dislike for too many migrants. It's reasonable for countries to want to keep their cultural identities because cultural differences produce friction. However, some diversity is good. In the next summer Olympics, Australians will be cheering for Gout Gout.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ethnic_and_cultural_diversity_level

This is a bit older, from 2003, but it has an index of the degree to which a country is multicultural in ethnic, linguistic, and religious aspects.

Looking up a couple of countries and their relative rankings, out of 215:

CountryEthnic rankLinguistic rankReligious rank
Australia1721063
Brazil7717765
Canada356327
China15614939
France15013626
Germany15214146
Italy166155149
Japan18819287
Mexico75145181
New Zealand1071405
Poland165178182
Russia133121116
Spain10190111
Taiwan1267531
United Kingdom16317428
United States90642
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