what do these countries gain by limiting contact with other cultures?
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You mean like China (they limit Internet usage)?  They have plenty to gain.  If you can keep a population ignorant, you can control them, and that is what communism is all about.
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Not unless the west really works hard on "embedind" the idea. \nOn their own, they have  been killing off each other for centuries\nand there are still plenty on both sides to go around. \nThey must have a "quota" which once it is reached, they slow down some until more of them are available. Pathetic..just...pathetic
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Imagine  u had 3 brothers that went away to different far away lands. they will all develop different customs.If you see them again after a few decades have past, youll see their cultures will be different.
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Good question.  That is a serious concern of mine.  Look at France.  They are currently dealing with a gigantic almost-fundamentalist Muslim subculture that has not assimilated.  I suspect liberal ideals that ran amuck caused this.  But it was prior to the 60's that this idea got around.\n\nThe presumption was that all cultures are equal and should be respected.  That's fine in theory, but what actually happens is that you start to get a transplanted version of foreign countries in your country if they do not assimilate, and particularly if they live in groups that are not integrated into society.  Assimilate does not require that you completely give up your heritage.  It simply requires that you hold the most important ideals of your new country.
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We don't, live with it. Your arrogant western ideals and insistence on impossing them on other cultures are why they hate us so much. If the people in those countries are that unhappy they can have a civil war. If it isn't popular enough to succeed, too bad.
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people from other nations, especially 3rd world countries find freedoms they don't enjoy at home in the US, such as religious and caste system types of situations, poor stay poor, also alot of opportunity for sucess here
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In China, we are more likely to observe a transitional process through a broad spectrum of social arrangements. This will likely move slowly enough to prevent the kind of strife we have observed elsewhere. Expect China to remain mostly socialized for a very long time.
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Limit the expansion of communist influence globally.
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It affected immigration from certain countries.
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Other countries tend to enter into territories not their own.  Perhaps this is because they want to contain any "bad" factors that could affect the entire globe.
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Yes some countries will not allow you in.
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Diplomacy/Influence - a small nation state may be influenced to ally with and then become an integral part of the larger civilization due to the advantages - benefitting from medical advances (etc).
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Few cultures have succeeded as multi-lingual cultures. Most were small nations in Europe. It is possible to do. \n\nWhat happens is that language barriers create isolation. This isolation breeds hostility which eventually manifests itself in racism. It is the enevitable and unavoidable consequence of cultural barriers. \n\nLanguage however is just the symptom. It is the easy way to pick out people who do not adopt any of the culture. Who refuse to assimilate to the nation they have moved too.  If except for language the refugees adopted the customs of the land then they would be more readily accepted. The lack of a common language would cause glass cielings and other day to day obstacles. What is happening in the US is that multiple imigrant groups are refusing to learn English, adopt the American culture at all and worse many are openly hostile to the US despite living here and enjoying America's freedoms and economic prosperity. \n\nThis of course creates conflict. If illegals came here, learned English, adopted the core American values, tried to fit in. People would be much more sympathetic to them. Instead they refuse to do any of that.  When one group gets away with it then it encourages other groups. So today we have Asian, Eastern European as well as Hispanic enclaves where people rarely leave a transplanted piece of the origional nation.  They root against the US in sports. Consider Americans as the enemy or at best with suspicion.  Small numbers of enclaves like this can be tolerated but in the US today significant portions of the population live in such enclaves. The Hispanic factions in particuler are becoming politically active and interfering in US politics. The irony of it is amazing. They hate the US but use our freedoms and our economic prosperity to fight us with from within.
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Lesser-Developed Countries
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Yes.  The two countries are allied in culture, language, and difficulties faced.
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Some countries have their borders closed to outsiders, however, most places will let you live there. It helps if you have alot of money.
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Many countrys used to use protectionist policys to tax imports of stuff which undercut there own important industries. Other countrys respondid with simmilar measures, eventualy ensuring very little was traded between the main Empires of the day.