> it is vital to preserve western culture. Immigration done right can strengthen it and keep it vital, but done wrong it can dilute and corrupt the culture. I'

> it is vital to preserve western culture. Immigration done right can strengthen it and keep it vital, but done wrong it can dilute and corrupt the culture. I've read that the pressure of xenophobia was a big contributor to the assimilation of past waves of American immigrants. Three of my four grandparents were working-class immigrants or the offspring thereof. There was never any doubt they wanted to be, and indeed became or grew up as, "real Americans" --- in no small part because they were (at a minimum) looked down on by the "real Americans." Certainly xenophobia is not especially admirable. But these days there's a danger of going too far in the other direction: There seems to be a species of political correctness that insists (sometimes loudly) that every other culture is at least as virtuous as American/Western culture and should be allowed to take root and spread in whatever fertile Western environment its human carriers decide they want to live in.