Originally Posted by
Millennial
Ah yes, the "natural factors of mobility"! Which part of our "diverse population" would you say is holding us back? How can the country homogenize the population to better help those helpless diverse people attain upward mobility?
You also seem to be missing some other socioeconomic factors in those western European countries besides their lack of the dreaded diversity. Or how some countries, like India, are very homogeneous, yet have incredibly poor social mobility. They may operate under a brutally cruel caste system, but at least they aren't diverse, am I right?
You're being incendiary and intentionally obtuse, and it appears you missed the entire point of my post. For clarity, there are a myriad of political and societal constructs that have slowed "social mobility" - and nearly all of them revolve around our diverse population. It appears you're attempting to simplify "homogeneous" and "diversity" to a purely racial sense, but it's far more complex than that. America is as culturally diverse as it is racially diverse. There isn't a single country above America on that list that is more culturally diverse than we are. Simply put, those Western European countries and their homogeneous populations allow for them to have natural social mobility throughout their entire populous that America will likely never see.