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OT: Human Rights Framework 30-Apr-2010 At 11:24:00 AM Hendo

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One problem with immigration is a conflict in cultures. Often immigrants want to preserve much of the way of life they had in their previous location. The existing population also wants to preserve their existing way of life. Both parties wanting to live as they please makes sense from an individual’s perspective but it doesn’t work. So you have a clash of cultures (and culture correlates highly with race) hence racism etc. The immigrants are often just as guilty of discrimination (including racial) by rejecting what already exists, infact I think that is worse. You can call someone from the existing population a ‘bigot’, racist etc but their concerns about a change in their way of life are the same as those of the immigrants, there isn’t that much difference.

To me it makes sense that if you don’t want to change your culture then don’t go and try to immigrate somewhere else and on the flip side don’t let too many immigrants come to your home so that they are able to avoid integration (a few are much more likely to integrate well due to not having an option).

It makes sense to me that the existing population (should) have the power to impose their own way of life and make any demands they like of any immigrants since they are already running the show and people can mostly choose to not immigrate if they desire. If that means limiting immigration or making polices to force integration etc then that is fine.