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Tanto Minchiata's avatar

You can have multiple ethnicities in a culture as long as they subscribe to the dominant culture. You can’t have a successful multicultural society. Immigrants to the USA, like those in my immediate family, who wanted to be Americans, embraced the culture and worked to assimilate. If that doesn’t happen with immigrants, you end up with what we are seeing now. If you are an immigrant and you don’t wish to assimilate, it’s better for the country in question not to have you there. It’s not the country’s job to change for you. It’s your job to fit in and be a constructive member of that society.

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Stephen "Steve" Medaris Bull's avatar

Thank you Pieter for terrific nuanced reminder and view on religious extremism. The Age of Enlightenment began in 1685 and the opportunity for all of us to live in a harmonized society sure is taking a long time to become the norm. Onwards.

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