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0 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined 9 Feb \ parent \ on: Does the Economy Need Migrants? and related discussion econ
Good point, I should have split those things up. It's a little more complicated to disentangle them for America, though, because of the widely held "melting pot" view of American culture.
Melting pot is assimilation which is what many immigrants and their advocates oppose. Melting pot is the opposite of multicultural
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Right, but both cultures change as a result.
"Prepare to be assimilated. Your cultural and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own."
-Borg greeting
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The Hegelian dialectic view of assimilation
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Immigrants from third world countries refuse to assimilate. In fact many hate western culture however you define it
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Some do. Some don't. Your absolute statements are hyperbolic. That's not to say there isn't a real problem there.
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It’s not 50/50 as your statement implies
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Most do not. These are not immigrants who passed thru Ellis Island
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