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No society can quickly absorb more foreigners than they already have citizens without becoming something else entirely in the process.
by badpun 3y ago
No society can quickly absorb more foreigners than they already have citizens without becoming something else entirely in the process.
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoCould Argentina not be a counterexample? Most Argentinians today trace their ancestry to late 19th century and early 20th century immigration when the country was booming. But the country still preserves a national mythology based on all kinds of 18th- and early 19th-century figures and events that most Argentinians bear no actual descent from.
- qwytw 3y ago> Most Argentinians Same applies to the US if we're being fair. However both places were still quite sparsely populated in the late 1800s and the demand for low-skilled labour was significantly higher than now (the situation now is very different).