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> Immigrants from parts of the world with bad institutions will likely lower the quality of the institutions in their new countries The world's leading democra
by forapurpose 8y ago
> Immigrants from parts of the world with bad institutions will likely lower the quality of the institutions in their new countries
The world's leading democracy, the U.S., is populated almost entirely by immigrants from non-democratic parts of the world and their decedents. With every wave of immigration, the claims are the same: They don't share our values, they won't assimilate, etc. It goes back to German immigrants around the time of the American Revolution (Ben Franklin had some particularly harsh words for them), and then Irish, Italian, Chinese, Eastern European, Latino, Catholic (Papists!), Muslim, Jewish, etc. etc.
The results never seem to match the theory; the current democracy and institutions of the U.S. are built by those people. Democracy means faith in governance by the people, and the very good news is that it works out very well relative to other forms of government.
- arcticbull 8y agoI can't really understand the downvotes here, these are facts. Here's a brief history of anti-immigrant propaganda in the US through the years to back up OPs claims. The anti-German sentiment in the late 1700s is new to me, to be honest. Franklin on Germans: “A Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them and will never adopt our Language or Customs any more than they can acquire our Complexion.” [1] Boy was he right, Freunde. [1] https://immigrantarchiveproject.org/brief-history-anti-immigrant-propaganda/ https://immigrantarchiveproject.org/brief-history-anti-immig...
- fapjacks 8y agoThose stupid, swarthy Germans. [0] [0] https://qz.com/904933/a-history-of-american-anti-immigrant-bias-starting-with-benjamin-franklins-hatred-of-the-germans/ https://qz.com/904933/a-history-of-american-anti-immigrant-b...