Immigrants and National Identity

Filed in archive Latin Blogs , Latin Culture , Link of the Day on May 28, 2007

Great article about immigration and immigrants:

Immigrants don't destroy our national identity, they renew it.

(...)History is instructive on whether immigrants will create a messy Patchwork of ethnicities in the U.S. About a century ago, a tide of Southern and Eastern European immigrants arriving on our shores raised fears similar to those we hear today. Then, as now, Americans worried that the newcomers were destroying American identity. Many were certain that Catholic immigrants would help the pope rule the United States from Rome, and that immigrant anarchists would destroy American democracy. Some eugenicists thought that the dark-skinned immigrants from Southern Europe would contaminate the American gene pool.

None of this came to pass, of course. The pope has no political say in American affairs, the United States is still a capitalist democracy, and there is nothing wrong with the American gene pool.

Really nice. That's what I believe: there's no reason to fear immigration. The US - the government and the citizens - should embrace it, and look for ways to allow immigrants to benefit the nation and contribute to the country's development.

Read the rest of the article: The next Americans

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