> Are you suggesting immigration is an issue because these places are diverse?
I think the issue is that no one voted for these sorts of changes, the situation in parts of Paris with groups of people sleeping and congregating on the streets and what is occurring in Calais are unacceptable to people accustomed to a "Western" society. I think we will see Marine Le Pen perform very well in the upcoming election in France.
I think you're right! But there's a sharp contrast between the concept of the European nation-state and the U.S. European nations are predicated on ethnic identity. The question of "What is Holland if it is no longer Dutch?" is actually a valid one. Nothing like that could be true in the US, however. The US nation-state is based on a purely civic idea, where ethnicity has no structural purpose.
>America was founded on immigration and has always been a country of immigrants.
From Europe.
It's not like the US started out as some mix of every idea/race/culture from every corner of the earth. Every country has people who originally came from somewhere and an identity grows from that. It's disingenuous to claim that Arab immigrants would assimilate as well as the Germans and the British did.
I think the issue is that no one voted for these sorts of changes, the situation in parts of Paris with groups of people sleeping and congregating on the streets and what is occurring in Calais are unacceptable to people accustomed to a "Western" society. I think we will see Marine Le Pen perform very well in the upcoming election in France.