There's a difference between requiring immigrants learn basic English (or swear loyalty to the USA) and preventing them from entering the country. I think it's worth breaking out what all the different pieces of "immigration" mean, something that kind of got skipped in the flamewar in his journal.
I also find it interesting that that article approaches it solely from the "we have room geographically" angle, rather than the "we have room culturally" tact that come up when discussing unbridled immigration, and that is the one being used when an official language is discussed.
Of course I'm about to start waxing on what a 'country' is, in this age of tribes and impending corp citizenship, so I'll leave off here and write some more Shadowrun background.
That's a great article. I'm not seeing it as a counter though. It seems to me as stating the enrichment of immigration which I agree with. The whole point of my last post was multiple allegiance when one's old allegiance is a threat to the current. This is of course assuming in the perfect world that the current allegiance is not doing wrong. One might call today's decent counter to the previous statement.
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Date: 2006-05-10 06:24 pm (UTC)I also find it interesting that that article approaches it solely from the "we have room geographically" angle, rather than the "we have room culturally" tact that come up when discussing unbridled immigration, and that is the one being used when an official language is discussed.
Of course I'm about to start waxing on what a 'country' is, in this age of tribes and impending corp citizenship, so I'll leave off here and write some more Shadowrun background.
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Date: 2006-05-10 06:28 pm (UTC)