More Openness To Diversity Yields More Amoral Familism

...since the world is populated overwhelmingly with such family traditions. The more such families you admit, the less the prospects for even marginal attenuation stateside, of the world's near-consensus AGAINST treating strangers fairly, as if they were relatives ( i.e. extended-family ones)."Mass immigration has introduced alien ethnic cronyism on a vast scale into America, as any student not only of today’s deluge but also of the Great Wave well knows. The whole point of amoral familism is that among many of the world’s ethnic groups honesty to those with whom one does not have close kinship ties is not normal and accepted behavior."
from: Amoral Familism And Baby Formula
...perhaps totally unrelated:
"A READER AT A MAJOR NEWSROOM EMAILS: Off the record, every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not a single one looking into Acorn, Ayers or Freddiemae. Editor refuses to publish anything that would jeopardize election for O, and betting you dollars to donuts same is true at NYT, others. People cheer when CNN or NBC run another Palin-mocking but raising any reasonable inquiry into obama is derided or flat out ignored. "