Obama reminds East Asians not to do what America did, non-ironically.
This is just a hit-and-run news article, I found it absolutely hilarious and perhaps you the readers might as well:
Washington Times, ‘Obama warns Asian leaders to avoid ‘pitfalls’ of America’, 20 Nov 2015: (emphasis added)
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At the town-hall event, Mr. Obama also warned young Asians to guard against racial divisions in politics, saying in the U.S., “it’s still an issue that comes up.”
“I really hope that all of you are fighting against the kinds of attitudes where you organize political parties or you organize interest groups just around ethnic or racial or tribal lines,” Mr. Obama said. “Because when you start doing that, it’s very easy for people to start thinking that whoever is not part of my group is somehow less than me. And once that mindset comes in, that’s how violence happens. That’s how discrimination happens. And societies that are divided ethnically and racially are almost never successful over the long term.”
He said in the U.S., “we’ve struggled with this for over 200 years, but it’s still an issue that comes up.”
“And so I would guard against that here in your home countries,” the president added.
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We hear you, Obama. And do you know what the best way to guard against that problem is? Don’t import tens of millions of people into a continent who don’t belong there and are hostile to its people, social mores, and value systems.
Because societies that are divided ethnically and racially are almost never successful over the long term.
