Jim Hlavac
Domestic Affairs
Immigration is only a problem because of failed states around the world. If we work at
correcting the failed states the people there will stay home. People currently emigrate
to survive. With all the world peaceable and with a model of liberty, people would
emigrate for joy.
What do we call the people who emigrate? What do we call the people who
remain, of whom a certain percentage can't get away? Immigrants in Europe can't
become part of the mainstream in the respective countries because the culture of the
countries refuses to admit outsiders.
You are an American, Canadian or Australia by dint of personal determination.
You are French, Argentinean etc. by birth. Hence the continuing ethnic heritage
devotion in the United States, Canada and Australia -- I'm Italian or I'm Greek or I'm
Nigerian, a person might say.
In these three countries and to a lesser extant England, you can be accepted as a
hyphenated person, but in the rest of the world you are either or are not. You can't
be hyphenated, in Europe, South America, Africa and Asia. Hyphenation is not
allowed culturally and often legally, hence the constant rebellions based on religions,
cultures, ethnicity; the whole issues of volatile minorities.
Then they move to America and no problem The Jewish Diamond dealer in New
York City taking a cab driven by a Palestinian Arab, conversing in imperfect English, at
peace, thanking their lucky stars that they are American. This is not normal or
accepted in any other countries, where foreigners are indeed that: foreign.