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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth
well when i say culture i include religion as an aspect of that.
but i do think immigration can lead to problems without the religious concern. the problems arise when you get competing cultures within a single society rather than compatible sub-cultures of a larger shared culture.
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What are you on about! You make this sound like a planet of the apes scenario. The only competing cultures are usually the cultures at the bottom of line, coming into conflict with the new wave of immigrants moving into their neighbourhood and nicking their jobs.
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this form of multiculturalism is really based on the american social experiment and the idea has always been one of a "melting pot."
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Maybe they should make the pot of sterner material then.
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like george friedman from the strafor poltiical think tank made the point about the difference between mexican immigration into the southwest united states and say italian immigration to america 100 years ago. the key difference is that the southwest states represent a 'borderland' which is an area which has cultural ties to both mexico and the united states... and have at one time been part of mexico and are now a part of the united states. so this presents a unique dynamic with regard to assimilation vs the assimilation of italian immigrants within a few generations. the italians left their homeland behind so assimilation was vital. they still maintained some aspects of their culture. you can see it to this day in parts of jersey/ny etc. but the american italian culture is an american culture... it is not the same as the culture that exists in italy today.
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The first sensible post you've made in this thread.
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with mexico... it's a lot more blurry. because a lot of these areas have close cultural ties to mexico and large mexican populations. so continuing to import mexicans on a mass scale to these areas won't lead to them assimilating in a few generations, the way the european immigrants did. it will just make the areas you import them to a lot more mexican.
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I can tell you that a lot of the so called Mexicans that cross into the USA are not actually Mexicans, but Latins from other countries that pass through Mexico in waves to try and get into the USA, Those that don't end up staying in Mexico and those that do just try and assimilate wherever they can.