I concluded a "multi-cultural" society leads to general dysfunction, mainly because there's no agreed upon common sense, because I think that common sense is essentially genetic. This conclusion is drawn from my personal experiences in the tech industry over the years working with people from different ethnic backgrounds. There are endless, more general/basic-world examples out there on YouTube as well.
For example, there's a whole category of "third world janky bridges". It's apparently very common for people to try to cross a perilous, failing piece of crap bridges while carrying way too much weight. Most of the videos we watch focus more on the comic outcomes of such situations, so the bridges collapse in slapstick fashion, and everyone is OK. A quite common reaction by people in "the west" is: Why don't they just spend a little more effort and make a better bridge? In many cases, even the local materials like trees could be used to build a more robust structure. An Eagle Scout in the US would be able to make a significantly better structure to get a merit badge. To an American, the scenario defies "common sense".
By the way, I don't mean to cast aspersions on people in "the third world" and imply the "west" is vastly superior. I'd cite another very common category of video: police bodycam footage, as contrary evidence to such claims of superiority. Those videos feature the underbelly of the US. Many international viewers post comments on the videos wondering why there are so many crazy people in America; And why do so many of those also have guns? Or why do completely dysfunctional, even actually medically "retarded" people have a driver's license in the US? Those examples also defy "common sense".
The western countries are quite "rich", and that generally implies "organized". High quality of life and lots of infrastructure comes from a population that managed to cooperate for some period of time, mainly after WW2 up through the 1980s. The areas of the world with ad hoc infrastructure seem to struggle to organize to do something relatively simple and cheap like building a decent footbridge over a ravine.
The police bodycam videos in the US depict what I'd call the "mouse utopia" scenario run amok. Many problems in the US appear "solved", like infrastructure, in the sense that there's some system to handle it and generally the system works, although bridges still collapse and overall the country's infrastructure is in decline as the ruling class and monetary system sucks the wealth out of the nation. However, problems which have no solution, like mass mental illness, and toxic materialism have no solution, and the ruling class's "answer" to all that is more police and surveillance systems and the like.
One theory about the poverty of the "third world" versus the wealth of "the west" is warm weather is corrosive to societal organization, and cold weather produces the opposite effect. The cold forces people to organize and cooperate and maybe importantly, inoculates the population against cheaters. The opposite scenario plays out in warm climates. This is possibly because the "common sense" understanding of the two groups is different and born of people's ancestors living in different biomes for thousands of years.
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In the cold climate case, people might have learned over time that it makes sense to cooperate on shared infrastructure because failing to do so meant death for individual's families in the winter. The apparent "sucker" behavior of contributing to a common good leads to a better chance of even individual's survival. OTOH, in the warm weather case, perhaps there's a significant penalty for being the sucker that devotes one's time to public projects, and a benefit in being a scammer/cheater because there's an abundance of food calories readily available. Also possibly, there's less of an emphasis on mastery of technical material or achievement for similar reasons.
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