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When I said "replacing", I meant the proportion, i.e. majority/ minority change, as the article suggested.

I think you understated the similarities between Americans and Irishs / Italians, and understated the differences between Americans and Hispanics / Muslims. Not sure whether you did this intentionally, but it is so obvious that Americans / Irishs / Italians are part of western culture, they have differences, but they belong to one big group. On the other hand, Southern American / Middle East belong to non-western culture. The latter is even worse, it is anti-western culture. When you look at the countries, US / UK / EU countries are similar, but Southern America countries are different from US / UK / EU countries, and Middle East countries are extremely different. Did you intentionally blind yourself?

Also, we lived in a different time with two important changes: 1. welfare state. 2. far-left ideology (multiculturalism, post-modernism, etc.) becomes norm

What shared heritage do the Irish and Italians have that the Irish don't also share with the (overwhelmingly Catholic) Mexicans? They don't eat the same food. They don't speak the same language (in a linguistic sense, Mexicans have more kinship with most of Europe than the Irish, who preserve a Gaelic tradition as well). They don't listen to the same music. They don't live in the same places. They don't grow up hearing the same stories --- outside of the biblical stories that they share with the Mexicans. They don't have the same kinds of governments.

Apart from a shared complexion --- a complexion, by the way, that we used to dispute was "white" in the case of Italians --- what ties a Irishman to an Italian?

Are you trying to tell me "western culture" or "western civilization" is a fake concept? If you don't see Ireland and Italian belongs to one group, and Mexico belongs to another, I don't see how we can communicate. Our worldview is just too different.

I feel like the questions I just posed left you a whole lot of room to rebut me specifically. Can you do so?

You want me to tell you what is western culture ?

As I said above, I would like you to spell out what elements of culture Italians share with Irishmen, but not with Mexicans.

They do not exist. You win.

Then what are you referring to when you talk about "western culture"?

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