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The US was a wildly more homogeneous place before the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act [0]. For all of the benefits draining the rest of the world of their
by seneca 6y ago
The US was a wildly more homogeneous place before the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act [0]. For all of the benefits draining the rest of the world of their most ambitious brings, it also destroys social solidarity, trust, and cooperation [1]. The upshot is that the study suggests this is hopefully a short term problem.
0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1965 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_...
1: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9477.2007.00176.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9477....
- bantunes 6y agoWasn't it also much more homogeneous before the waves of German, Irish, Chinese and Italian waves of emigration much earlier than 1965?
- rossdavidh 6y agoWhile I would not at all wish to return to ethnic homogeneity (to the extent that ever existed), there was a very real downturn in immigration into the U.S. from FDR until LBJ. FDR was quite opposed to allowing immigration in, perhaps at least in part due to the very high unemployment that he was trying to address. The tight restrictions stayed in place for several decades.