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Diversity means more than one ethnic group in the same nation, even if the groups share a religion. Most members of each group act for that group alone, which requires that they displace other groups, and in this competition, disunity flourishes and society falls apart.

In ancient Spain, diversity tensions caused a Muslim invasion:

The rapid success of the Islamic forces can be explained by the fact that Hispano-Visigoth society had not yet succeeded in achieving a compact and homogeneous integration. The Jews, harassed by the legal ordinances of Toledo, were particularly hostile toward the Christian government. Moreover, the Muslim conquest brought advantages to many elements of society: the burden of taxes was generally less onerous than it had been in the last years of the Visigoth epoch; serfs who converted to Islam (mawālī; singular: mawlā) advanced into the category of freedmen and enrolled among the dependents of some conquering noble; and Jews, who were no longer persecuted, were placed on an equal footing with the Hispano-Romans and Goths who still remained within the Christian fold. Thus, in the first half of the 8th century, a new society developed in Muslim Spain.

Jews, Christians, and class warfare by serfs enabled a great success for foreign armies. We run the same risk today.

Tags: christianity, class war, diversity, judaism, spain