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Originally posted by qweenmiley
Agreed.
And lol @ people getting upset at me for generalizing (I'm not) when they too are also generalizing a whole race(s) of people (Europeans).
I'm not white but what is wrong with them wanting to preserve their heritage, cultures, and traditions? You don't see Koreans and Chinese immigrating to Japan on a mass scale demanding them to change and adapt to their ways.
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when you're putting traditions and heritage above human rights that's not okay
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Stop painting arabs as only victims. They had their slave trade too. I'm not responsible for the imperialism of the previous generations. I'm fine with a limited immigration when the economic environment allows it and when those coming into the country respect all the cultural aspects of the country they're joining (secularity for example). Given the economic crisis in the Euro zone, I don't understand why hundreds of thousand of immigrants whom we are struggling to assimilate keep coming in every year.
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blah blah blah culture blah blah blah keep away the dirty brown people
"culture preservation" is such a stupid excuse for xenophobia, cultures naturally overlap and there's nothing wrong with that, it's dumb to be obsessed with keeping things exactly the same
and not only that but why does it matter if they act different from the culture? what about the culture staying the same is so important that it trumps letting people do what will make their lives better?