Mrebo said:
Look, I'm new here,
Welcome! I don't know who is new and who isn't these days.
Thank you!
goes on and on and accomplishes nothing particular.
That is Politics' mission statement.
And maybe you're right and politics is where it belongs, but right now we're all here so let's talk!
Well that's what I'm doing ;)
Trident said:
So what I'm looking at here is that all these people are still coming to North America, but now there are no common hardships to force them to work together and integrate and become a common nation. I'm thinking that I don't want to introduce an adversity, but I am thinking that a way to conform voluntarily should be rewarded in the form of citizenship. Basically a relationship that states that this one group cared enough to join us on our own terms rather than to come here and appear to scorn our culture.
When I think of difficult problems that warrant creative solutions I think gamification. At the risk of getting you in trouble - a risk I'm willing to take - what immigrant populations do you think are most troublesome?
I think it is any group that bring their complete culture with them in sufficient numbers that the current residents have little to no reason to interract with the new group and vice versa. I like people and I like difference, but if I am walking into a neighborhood and all evidence of English is gone and people who have lived in the area for 3 generations still don't understand the language I think there is something wrong. How can these people be expected to have a common identity and a common system of goals as those who live just over the hill and are more connected?
Then, when these people votes all it takes is a candidate who panders to their special interest to gather up all their votes in a block and, with enough numbers, now your immigrant population is changing the direction of the country back towards the familiar back-home feel. It is not what has made America great. What has made America great is that people from all over had to work together to build it. Now that it's built it seems people are now just coming from all over to take advantage of it and maybe steer it off-course.