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Originally Posted by New Brisavoine
French saying of the day: Tant va la cruche à l'eau qu'à la fin elle se casse.
What happened in the 19th century or early 20th century won't necessarily happen in the 21st century. The Western white world is not on the ascendancy anymore, and its birth rate is very low. It is in relative decline in the world. As for Canada, just like the US or Europe, its ability to integrate newcomers is not what it used to be (because of much larger numbers of newcomers, much more different and alien backgrounds of the newcomers, the cultural decline of the West, smartphones and the internet that keep immigrants in hourly contact with their countries of origin, etc).
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Sorry, but that sounds like soapbox, rabble-rousing pseudo logic, which is not borne out of empirical research, but rather, out of an
a priori conviction.
The Western world is just not so very white anymore. That fact lies at the root of most people's objections to widespread immigration from the four corners of the world. Take a look at third-generation Canadians, whose brown grandparents hailed from distant places: their values have largely converged to that of mainstream society, and their ethnic out-marriage rates have skyrocketed, just like their Irish, Jewish, Italian, Ukrainian, etc. counterparts of a century ago.
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité
In the absence of drastically increasing the birthrate (something no large Western country has been able to achieve, despite numerous strategies, mostly of the financial sort, that have been implemented), immigrants from high-growth places are needed to avoid the impending fate of Japan, Italy, Korea, China, Bulgaria, Hungary (and soon, add almost all of South America to this list): places with rapidly-declining populations and in the near future, economic stagnation and a loss of global heft, both economically and politically.