Thread by @TruueDiscipline

Going to do a thread on this book which looks at 6 islands that have shifted from one group to another: amazon.com/Majority-Minor…

As the author points out, contention between groups characterizes pretty much every diverse country:

The 6 islands in question:

His map of the processes that defined each transition:

Comparison table:

Starting with Singapore. The government owns 85% of real estate. This allows the government to exercise a large amount of control:

Singaporeans feel the day that they stop worrying about race relations is when they will spiral out of control:

The ways that they manage this: population control, identity control and narrative control.

How the govt micromanages everything:

summary table of situation in Singapore:

Lee described himself as not racist, but racialist:

Singapore imports Chinese, but these Chinese are different than Singaporean Chinese:

The government believes that only so much change can be absorbed at a time:

Lee Kuan Yew on differences between Chinese and Indians:

Singapore is engineered to have a majority that is 73% Chinese:

Description of Singapore's "neutral multiculturalism"

One Singaporean scholar lamented Chinese privilege:

Why govt officials are so concerned about race relations: Riots that took place before the state was founded:

Are they right to be concerned? 22% of marriages are interracial:

Some politicians aren't sure if Singapore is ready for a non Chinese leader:

Poll on who would vote for each ethnic group:

How Singapore controls the narrative:

Some people like Anthony Bourdain have cited Singapore as a successful multicultural model. But they often don't realize it is based on Chinese supremacy, and authoritarianism that would never fly in the west:

Next we have Bahrain. It is majority minority in two different ways. Migrants are the majority of the population, and Shia are the majority of citizens.

The British left and the country broke down along sectarian lines:

Summary of Bahrain:

The government works to naturalize Sunnis to keep the demographics majority:

The exact number is not known, but Shias likely make up the majority:

The government naturalizes large number of friendly subjects. One opposition leader derided this as ethnic cleansing:

The government busses people across the border to vote and then return:

Disparities between Sunni and Shia:

One mixed Sunni Shia couple joked that the wife got angry at the Husband for supporting Assad, and the Husband got angry at the wife for supporting ISIS

Next is Trinidad and Tobago: Blacks were the majority but lost out through immigration and differential fertility rates, similar to what is happening to whites in the west:

Indians were imported as labor, and made up 25% of the population in 1871 and a significant percent of the plantation labor force:

Both communities were inspired by respective power struggles aboard:

Demographics of Trinidad and Tobago:

Indo Trinidadians became resentful that they lacked power in society after independence. Afro Trinidadians worried what would happen if the lost power:

On the cusp of losing plurality status, blacks attempted a coup:

Summary of Trinidad and Tobago:

Summary of situation in Mauritius:

On the cusp on independence politics was heavily sorted by race. Racial violence broke out:

A Creole leader was arrested for smoking Marijuana and died in police custody in 1999. More racial violence broke out:

Comparison between Creoles and certain white populations in the west:

On to NYC. Passage describes how catholics took over. Protestant mayor says he worries about Catholic churches being burned. Catholic bishop retorts back that he isn't the one that should be worried:

NYC was then swamped by famine Irish migrants, who were less skilled than the initial migrants. This lead to backlash:

The Irish were about 25% of most northeastern cities by 1850

How the Irish changed civil society in the US:

One Irishman said that they Irish were interested in civil service because of the security that it brings. Said that Irish Catholics aren't an entrepreneurial culture and that that was mostly confined to protestants:

Summary of transformation of NYC:

Even as NYC cops become less Irish, the force still has an Irish style:

Will try to finish this thread today. Lastly we have Hawaii, the only state in the US to never have a white majority:

There was tension in Hawaii between those who wanted to keep Hawaii for its natives and those who wanted to open it up. The elites tried to symbolically appease the natives with cultural celebrations:

There was a 20 to 1 ratio of pure blooded Hawaiians in 1870 to a 1 to 1000 ratio now. A group can mix out pretty fast.

Summary of the situation in Hawaii:

The supreme court overturned a law that restricted for for the states office of Hawaiian affairs to natives:

Table of how multiethnic countries can pivot to coexistence vs pivot to inflammation

Summary of each country:

When blacks moved into an area it seemed to promote assimilation of white ethnics:

TR on a potential future race war: