Ishmael
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There has always been the presumption on the part of the wholesale immigration proponents that the new immigrants will eventually assimilate into the culture. As a matter of fact the US was one of the premier examples of how that worked, a fact we were quite proud of for many, many, years. It generally took 3 generations before an immigrant population was assimilated into the culture, but assimilate they did.
We are now seeing a change in the paradigm. Immigrants, legal and illegal, are NOT assimilating into the culture. And this phenomena is not restricted to the US alone. Virtually all of the Western nations are observing this shift in acculturation.
The EU is experimenting with the free flow of goods and labor, which as a general doctrine is a good idea. The US has always had that sort of doctrine in place regarding the flow of labor between the various states. But the US enjoyed the fact that that mobile labor force was all of the same culture and were united by a common language. That is not the case with the EU and the problems of not having a common culture and language are beginning to manifest themselves.
Further, as a guiding principle immigration is a good thing. A renewal of the blood so to speak. The issue there now hinges on the quality of the immigrants.
Getting on to assimilation, the previous waves of immigrants to the US were immediately disconnected from their homeland culture and non-immigrant associates. Sure, they could, and did, write letters but that form of communication would take weeks, even months, to complete on communication cycle. Not so anymore. With mass air travel and the electronic frontier communication is instant. It's as if they never left their home land, or more the case that they just happen to be on a working vacation. There is no incentive to assimilate. We are seeing, both here in the US and in the EU, third and fourth generation immigrants that have NOT assimilated. Indeed they have made no attempt to do so. This is a prescription for disaster.
So what's the solution to this problem? I don't have a clue right now, I don't even know if there is one.
Ishmael
We are now seeing a change in the paradigm. Immigrants, legal and illegal, are NOT assimilating into the culture. And this phenomena is not restricted to the US alone. Virtually all of the Western nations are observing this shift in acculturation.
The EU is experimenting with the free flow of goods and labor, which as a general doctrine is a good idea. The US has always had that sort of doctrine in place regarding the flow of labor between the various states. But the US enjoyed the fact that that mobile labor force was all of the same culture and were united by a common language. That is not the case with the EU and the problems of not having a common culture and language are beginning to manifest themselves.
Further, as a guiding principle immigration is a good thing. A renewal of the blood so to speak. The issue there now hinges on the quality of the immigrants.
Getting on to assimilation, the previous waves of immigrants to the US were immediately disconnected from their homeland culture and non-immigrant associates. Sure, they could, and did, write letters but that form of communication would take weeks, even months, to complete on communication cycle. Not so anymore. With mass air travel and the electronic frontier communication is instant. It's as if they never left their home land, or more the case that they just happen to be on a working vacation. There is no incentive to assimilate. We are seeing, both here in the US and in the EU, third and fourth generation immigrants that have NOT assimilated. Indeed they have made no attempt to do so. This is a prescription for disaster.
So what's the solution to this problem? I don't have a clue right now, I don't even know if there is one.
Ishmael