A propositional nation continuously replenished by immigrants seeking economic improvement lives in a perpetual present. Even a patriotic new arrival cannot be expected to get emotional over the memory Valley Forge. Eventually, even FDR, JFK, and MLK will be similarly forgotten.
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Nothing at all against 3rd world countries or their people. I'm only referring to the rate of immigration and its effect on our ability to integrate.
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Thing is that eventually the race-based immigration quotas would have been seen as immoral-do you think moving to a colorblind merit-based immigration system similar to Canada or Australia would have been better for the U.S. than the one we adopted?
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And speaking of African-Americans, I don't get why nobody thought (or thinks today) that taking on the task of assimilating and integrating millions of immigrants at the same time that we needed to integrate the black population was a bad idea.
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It's an historical tragedy. Their unique and valid historical claims got mixed up with grievances from descendants of Cortes who recently arrived to go to Harvard.
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As you pointed out the current national myth “The American Dream” is inherently fragile since it is based on economic prosperity. Not sure what a modern narrative would be based on.
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