Reddit mentions of Welfare, Ethnicity and Altruism (Routledge Studies in Nationalism and Ethnicity)

He just SHREDDED the alt-right with his feelings when all we have are facts. We should hang our heads in shame.

https://www.amazon.com/Welfare-Ethnicity-Altruism-Evolutionary-Nationalism/dp/0714683523/

^ it's pretty much this. A good book about this topic:
http://www.amazon.com/Welfare-Ethnicity-Altruism-Evolutionary-Nationalism/dp/0714683523

> The book presents two separate studies that compare welfare expenditures around the world, both indicating that the more ethnically mixed a population becomes, the greater is its resistance to redistributive policies.

>It depends how you define "assimilation". These days it's more of a political term describing someone who is "economically productive". There are limits to assimilation. Social cohesion in ethnically homogenous nations will always be higher than in ethnically diverse nations. One of the main reasons why US is so against all social spending (universal healthcare for example) is because it is so ethnically fragmented that people don't relate to each other as much. That's why its culture is so individualistic. This is all very well studied:
http://www.amazon.com/Welfare-Ethnicity-Altruism-Evolutionary-Nationalism/dp/0714683523
So that's why it makes sense to keep nation as homogenous as possible.

"Assimilation" means becoming a part of the nation. It often does not take place within a single generation (unless someone moved to a new nation at a very young age), but over 2-3. You have not answered my question, which was "what does "collective memory of a people" have to do with genetics?" You have not explained why people of different racial origin cannot assimilate and become part of a nation.

>Almost all of them?

Name three.

>but many times correlation does imply a causation.

And many times it doesn't. If you want to make a claim that X causes Y, you need to prove that X causes Y. Merely showing that X and Y are correlated is not sufficient. Even Mexico with its large mestizo population is richer than Serbia, Bulgaria, Albania, and many other East European "white" countries (I am not sure if East Europeans are regarded as "white" or not by fascists). With that being said, I don't think it is a mere coincidence that a largely white Canada is much richer than places like Mexico or Argentina (by the way, there is no significant difference in per capita income between these two latter countries). In my view, Western Europeans since the 18th century did inculcate superior cultural values that are conducive to building an advanced industrial economy (such as keen time-awareness, emphasis on literacy, and work ethic), but these traits are learned and are not a result of genetics, given that Western Europeans themselves did not possess such traits before modern times, and several non-Western countries (particularly East Asian ones like Japan and South Korea) have adopted these traits and outperformed Western European countries like Portugal and Spain (which remained largely illiterate and underdeveloped well into the 20th century).