leashyourkids wrote:
Seacrest wrote:
leashyourkids wrote:
It actually would scare me if the US population was starting to consist primarily of the Muslim religion.
Why is that?
I have nothing against Muslims. And "scare" is probably a bad term. But Europe is experiencing a cultural shift that will eventually erode their customs and traditions due to the high influx of Islam.
As an atheist, I already resent any forcing of religion in America - primarily Christianity. I don't want to deal with more, especially from a religion that can be very forceful in its views.
That said, I do want to say that isn't always the case. In fact, I believe my good friend Vegan is Muslim. I have no problem with that. Vegan is smart and well-rounded and doesn't try to force his beliefs on me. It is not his kind that I am referring to.
To your larger point here, I don't think such ghettoization is likely here for ethnic communities that far away from us. The geographic proximity europe has with Russia, ME, south Asia, etc, makes it less costly not only to migrate there but also conduct visits back and forth. It's more prohibitive to do that when further away, which is why I don't think we will see as strong a markedly immigrant (ie lack of integration) presence, culturally or even numerically, here as we see from some Latino communities. The trend should be further integration/assimilation the more you move away from the immigrant generation. These are just my observations as a non immigrant.
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