• GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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    7 months ago

    While I personally believe that immigration is both humane and necessary for the aging western economies, I think it’s safe to say that the purely optimistic, citizenship first and questions later mentality has proven a failure.

    Without rules and a culture that demands assimilation instead of parallel existence in a separate microcosm, the new citizens have difficulties identifying with the new social order they are moving into, and naturally little respect for it either. Not to mention that by corralling immigrants into ghettos the formation of parallel structures is encouraged and the native population alienated.

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      7 months ago

      While I personally believe that immigration is both humane and necessary for the aging western economies,

      Oh, wow. Instead of solving the problem where people don’t consider it plausible to have at least 2 children, let’s bring in more people from poorer countries.

      Without rules and a culture that demands assimilation instead of parallel existence in a separate microcosm,

      Yeah, see, it’s fine to have separate microcosms for any sane society. Just some are toxic.

      It’s simply about education and, yes, not letting in people you don’t want.