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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Ironic that many conservatives want to make our immigration policy more like France's.
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Ironic? I don't know if it is ironic. However, I believe that a significant source of their fear of immigration is the same source that has inspired and keeps inspiring Europeans to move their borders closer to entholinguistic lines: tribalism (that is the nice term for it, another term for it is ethnolinguistic and racial bigotry).
I believe those same inclinations will keep Turkey out of the EU.
Having said that, people of the Americas (and particularly the people of the United States) seem to be much less susceptible to this force than Europeans.
