Via Sailer's Byron Roth’s The Perils Of Diversity: Apologies To The Grandchildren (h/t Shrinkwrapped's Naturalistic Sociological Experiments):
“The argument between assimilationists and multiculturalists is whether it is the immigrant or the culture that should change.”
I've always assumed that the reason at least half the world would like to live in the US is because of our culture. Who wants to change it? You don't see people climbing barbed wire fences and breaking laws to get into Russia or Egypt or Iran or India or China or Venezuela, etc. The most recent stats I saw (2000) showed 2.9 million people in NYC itself were foreign-born. That's mind-boggling, equivalent to the entire population of Kansas.
More details, from the NYC Dept of Planning:
The passage of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Amendments led to a surge in immigration to New York City and a decline in the share of European immigrants. Between 1970 and 2000, the total foreign-born population nearly doubled, from 1.44 million to 2.87 million, while the share of Europeans dropped, from 64 percent to 19 percent. Latin America was the largest area of origin in 2000, accounting for nearly 32 percent of the city's foreign-born, followed by Asia (24 percent), the nonhispanic Caribbean (21 percent), Europe (19 percent), and Africa (3 percent). Thus, New York City's foreign-born in 2000 have extremely diverse origins, in contrast to the overwhelming European origin of the foreign-born in earlier decades.
Sometimes, listening to the MSM and the Left, you'd think that this country was a terrible place to live in. Ingrates, if you ask me. My foreign-born colleagues and acquaintances thank God every day that they are here in America - while people like me, it's shameful to admit, often just take it all for granted.
