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What is homogeneity are we looking for ?
The rays from this beacon… will welcome the poor and the persecuted… It will teach them that there is room and brotherhood for all who will support our institutions and aid in our development; but that those who come to disturb our peace and dethrone our laws are aliens and enemies forever.
Sucks to be poles, muslims, Germans, russians.. have tried to take them out.
"For America, I think it should remain fundamentally European, allowing only high-value immigrants to agree to thoroughly assimilate into American culture, speaking American English"
America was never really europen til 300 years ago, millions of natives lived here who taught first europeans how to farm. Then millions of Africa were brought for cotton picking, then chinese for railroads, poor Italians and Irish potato famine brought more Europeans. US hated those poor europeans in 1920. Europeans are at constant war.
The famous line from the Statue of Liberty is from Emma Lazarus's sonnet, "The New Colossus," which reads, "Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" and welcomes immigrants, symbolizing hope and freedom, with the full text inscribed on a bronze plaque inside the pedestal.
*Allowing high value immigrants makes perfect sense. Though not great incentive to come to USA if they are high value. Early Europeans were persecuted groups or criminals from French n british. There are too many durg addicts in usa so we could use some high value immigrants.
American English is almost same as british. If you read Shakespeare 400 years ago, English has changed significantly. If to tell most European to speak English, they will try to kill you. French n Germans n many other love their language.
English is distant relatives within the vast Indo-European language family, sharing a common ancestor called Proto-Indo-European (PIE). Future we can have AI develop optimum world language.
Hope no gets offended, goal is to discuss. We are all made from electron ,proton,n neutron and full of empty space.
Chauncey M. Depew, during his speech at the Statue of Liberty’s unveiling on October 28, 1886, said:
The rays from this beacon… will welcome the poor and the persecuted… It will teach them that there is room and brotherhood for all who will support our institutions and aid in our development; but that those who come to disturb our peace and dethrone our laws are aliens and enemies forever.
Police are funded and staffed on the premise that they’re chasing small numbers of bad guys in a population of honest citizens. If that cultural premise fails, we don’t have the cops to fix it. ...
Two competing memories guide my idea of the cultural solution. First, on a road trip through the small town Midwest, this Los Angeles resident kept stopping at grocery stores and post offices where people baffled me by leaving their cars running — windows down, keys in the car — while they went inside for 10 or 20 minutes to do their business. They assumed, on long evidence, that they were safe from their neighbors, who would not and did not steal.
But second, in Kuwait, as a soldier in 2006, I watched as military arrests piled up and an officer in charge of Iraq War logistics killed himself. In the Middle East, people bidding for giant government contracts politely showed up with suitcases full of cash for the officials who approved the contracts. Of course they did. That’s how business is done, right?
In much of the world, that’s the daily organizing presumption. If there’s a bucket of money, somebody’s going to be shrewd enough and tough enough to take from it, so why would you be weak enough to not grab your share?
The more we undermine the first culture and import the second, the more we’re going to foster public services fraud. That’s not what we want to do.
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#diversity