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Originally Posted by Tribesman
Gimpy, with your clothing "adopting of culture" are you going to equally complain about the Hasidics or the Amish?
What about the Mormons, are they un-american?
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This is actually a good point, but tangential to
immigration. Those already here, are Americans, and have the right to be as separatist in lifestyle as they wish. They get "grandfathered in." That's why in my post I specifically only mentioned immigration quotas. The number of people from given places is already chosen arbitrarily. This is an avenue where the US can be as discriminatory as we wish (in the good sense of making intelligent choices, unlike, say an indiscriminate immigration policy).
Demographics that have shown themselves to not integrate in whatever arbitrary way we (the electorate) decides is appropriate, can very well (and legally) be denied immigration status. Drop the quota from X thousand from Saudi Arabia to 100 (or whatever).
The mormans is an interesting example of a near theocracy in the US. Luckily our system protects us from state-imposed religion, but in Utah, fro a long time, being LDS was pretty much required or you were in fact within their social structure a 2d class citizen. It's fair to try and prevent this in the future I think.