Re: Not only do hispanic population share more cultural values with the natives than in Europe (both predominantly Christian) but the US has an excellent record of being able to assimilate large immigrant populations.
"LARGE immigrant populations." Maybe, but now the challenge for the US's Judeo-Protestant majority is to assimilate the unrelenting FLOOD of Hispanic immigrants in an era where satellite dishes, cheap travel (back to Mexico, Guatemala,...) and unequal demographics (between whites and Hispanics) make it all easier for Hispanic minorities to nurture their ethnic and cultural legacy. Hence it doesn't compare at all with the US's previous waves of immigration, mainly from lily-white Europe. For instance, the assimilation of Italians(*) was faster --do Rudolf Giuliani and Mario Cuomo speak Italian? I once heard Cuomo tell his audience that his nonna (grandma) never spoke English....
(*) en.wikipedia.org
Re: This is completely different to the situation of Muslim immigration in France or the Netherlands, as the author points out.
Europe's anti-immigrant feelings don't stem from Islam or religion... Bear in mind that most Europeans don't give a damn about Jesus, the Pope, the Bible, etc. There ain't "megachurchs" or Bible-thumpers over here. As I expounded previously on other threads, Europe's anti-immigrant grudge is based on race --Europe fancies itself as a multicultural WHITE monolith as opposed to the American multiracial monoculture:
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I guess that's why Christian and Animist Blacks from sub-Saharan Africa (Congo, Gabon, Cameroon,...) or Surinam (as far as the Netherlands is concerned) or Brazil and the Caribbean countries (as far as Portugal and Spain are concerned) are as discriminated and jobless as their Muslim fellows... Ditto with the increasing Asian/Chinese minority:
Brushing off Paris clothiers
By Andrea A. Quong International Herald Tribune
Friday, March 5, 2004
iht.com
Tensions rise as Chinese move, en masse, into a Paris neighborhood
Letter from Europe
By Celestine Bohlen Bloomberg News
Published: June 5, 2007
iht.com
China urges Italy to handle Milan Chinatown riots 'fairly'
April 15, 2007
smh.com.au
Of course, such a racialist rationale doesn't fit in with Judeofascists' agenda to picture the whole issue as an enlarged replica of the Israeli-Arab conflict.... Judeofascists are anxious to explain away Europe's immigration crisis as a Muslim issue, as a clash of religions/civilizations, not as yet another instance of plain, white racism.
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