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Immigration is not the cause of polarisation in the US. There is a dangerous precedent of blaming all of a countries problems on immigrants and ethnic groups.
by jszymborski 4y ago
Immigration is not the cause of polarisation in the US. There is a dangerous precedent of blaming all of a countries problems on immigrants and ethnic groups.
Polarisation in the US, in my estimation, has a lot more to do with democratic backsliding [0] cause by economic inequality, populism, cultural conservatism and the concentration of power in the US gov't.
Lots of things with much more evidence to point at before you start blaming immigrants.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_backsliding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_backsliding