RicOlie_2 said:

I agree in many ways, although I do believe firmly in being charitable to people. We have it good in North America and we should avoid selfishness.

If you were on a sinking ship and could get onto a lifeboat that could only hold 20, what do you do with the 250 people who want to get on? If they all get on the boat will sink and everyone goes down. It's selfish, but it's also true.

On the other hand, it won't do any good to bring everyone else's problems here.

I think the basic bit I'm trying to say is that people coming here need to at least first realize what things we did right that make this a better place than where they are from. They then have to get rid of the thinking that they should cling to their former ways because that is contradictory to what they were supposed to be doing in coming here.

I think the "multicultural" idea that we have is idealistic, but simply not realistic. A society should have a certain degree of homogeneity, and we can't have people wanting to live by Sharia law here, basically undermining our own justice system (note: I don't really know much about that specific issue, it's the principle I'm getting at). So the big question is: where do we draw the line? What sort of diversity do we allow and what sort is harmful for our society?

I think diversity is healthy in many things, but I think there need to be some basic things that everyone who lives in a certain place should agree about. They have to be fairly basic, but they should be things like women are equal, blood feuds are not a good idea, and it's dumb to build high-ceilinged homes in areas where it's too cold.