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Old 11-22-2006, 02:41 PM   #11
9th Engineer
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Diversity is all well and good, but it's not particularly valuable for its own sake. It needs to stimulate the existing culture and improve the current situation, not create new demands and problems. That's why food and clothing (for the most part) don't really need regulation, but communication issues are critical. If someone can't speak the native lanugage then they can't get an education, get paperwork such as drivers licences, or communicate with people like doctors. Who learns whos language depends on which party is moving into a preexisiting system, if you come to me then you speak my language, if I go to you then I speak yours.
Melting pot or not, all immigrants must become American in at least some sense of the word. It's not ok to just transplant a little section of your home country here and pretend you're there. That's why I don't have any tollerence for the Mexican or Cuban immigrants who come here expecting to sap our economy to send money back to their country.
Immigrant Muslims in Sweden can keep their old customs as long as they still allow them to be productive members of Swedish society, if not then they should really go somewhere they fit into better. It is the newcommers responsibility to prove he has a reason to be here and an ability to add something useful of his own, not the other way around.
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