Its kind of the difference between Joel Osteen and my local Episcopalian priest, making $30,000 who visits my mom when she's in the hospital. There's nothing wrong with movies but the movie industry has been increasingly promoting this convergence of brand identity and personal identity and parasocial relationships between the individual and media. Fine, get your money, but at a large scale there are immense social consequences.

The issue with multiculturalism is it degenerates very quickly to anticulturalism. There's a difference between the historical architecture of Yemen and the sinister shopping mall that is Dubai. On some level you have to preserve history, art, architecture with borders and boundaries and a culture that values those things.

Like imagine if someone built a replica of the Eiffel Tower right next to the Taj Mahal casting a shadow over it. It would be an insult, it would be Las Vegas.