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- Jul 18, 2019
America, until recently, operated on the assumption that newcomers would assimilate into the white mainline culture. You could always keep a few token things but the idea was always that within a generation or two your descendants would be culturally indistinguishable from the mainline culture. It wasn't the "everything's hunky dory, let's all just vibe man" ideal of lefty college types - it was an aggressive and oftentimes violent assimilation of foreign people. If your name couldn't be pronounced easily by English speakers, you took an English name (or at least tolerated English speakers giving you a nickname that they could pronounce). Your religion took on aspects of Great Awakening Protestantism. If you weren't a 'normal' white, there was an unspoken expectation that you would intermarry and fold your ethnic identity into the greater whole. You adopted beliefs that put high value on hard work and self-determination.America and Canada were settler colonies and while whites were the majority until recently, the idea of immigrants coming in has helped shape its identity, espcially with America
Where things broke down the most was the idea of multiculturalism. The idea that you can have several distinct cultures coexisting as some kind of rainbow weave of different beliefs and values. No society can function like this and it's no coincidence that every time this idea comes into vogue, there's a strong backlash not long after that results in an even more rigid society and increased restrictions on immigration.
Americans kinda understand this intuitively and you can see even the normie on the street switching into "assimilate or die" mode given the current glut of immigrants. But a lot of the countries in places like Europe only understand, "bring immigrants" and not "press gang immigrants into becoming like you." Americans are an imperial people. We legitimately believe that everyone who comes here should and must become just like us. It's somewhere between old school ethnic homogeneity and gay multiculturalism but it's worked out alright for the way America has positioned itself (whether or not it will continue to work out is an eternal question obviously).
I bring all this up to say - Europeans who blame America for muliculti horseshit are delusional. At no point did we make it seem like this is easy or that it would just be peace and love. It's a brutal way to forge a national identity and retard euro politicians who tried to emulate it without understanding the first thing about how it works have done unfathomable damage to the national identities of their homelands.
Relevant to the thread: I would say the place where jeets really ran afoul of everyone was when they started forming ethnic enclaves. There's a lot of things Americans can tolerate but we immediately recognize this as a cancer that can't be tolerated and react quickly to stomp it out.