Immigrants today have their own nations as well and if they prefer their native culture and are intolerant of the prevailing culture of another nation? Then they might consider staying home, like Native Americans that chose to live on the rez.
Even people who move to this country because they
like this country and appreciate what it stands for, want to live successfully within our society, etc.,
still will largely retain their own culture,
by necessity. There is literally no other way to do it. Immigration is not some magical process that wipes your mind of all your native language, upbringing, and culture, replacing it with some sort of... American Mind Porridge. You have to accept that any immigrant will retain their native culture to a fair degree, that integration is an multi-generational process, that people of similar background will still coalesce into their own like-minded communities, and that
none of this means that their people don't care to integrate, won't integrate over time, or that they don't care about or appreciate this country's strengths or culture.
For example: Where I grew up was a very ethnically French-Canadian area. It was largely populated in (roughly, I'm not entirely sure) the mid-late 19th century by immigrants from French-speaking Canada (Quebec and so forth). My grandparents still have a localized version of a French-Canadian accent, even, and were schooled in French as children. Obviously, those immigrants retained their culture, even their language, and existed in a very ethnic community. They
still integrated. It just takes time. You cannot chide an immigrant for not immediately learning the language of their new nation or integrating into the new culture overnight. That shit doesn't happen. It just doesn't work that way. My point is that ethnic communities and fairly distinct cultures have existed in America before, always have, and have not been a significant barrier to integration except where those populations were ostracized or alienated in some fashion. For example, I used to work in an auto parts store near where I grew up, and a sign out front was in both Spanish and English. A customer one day walked in and got visibly and verbally upset there we dared to put the sign in both languages and not just English. There is a significant likelihood that
his own ancestors (and definitely those of some of the people working there, including myself) were in the exact same situation as those hispanics no more than two or three generations ago in that same area, yet somehow they managed just fine.
You realize you're using a straight up genocide as the basis for your argument pertaining to how to best handle cultural integration, right?
No, that's just what you are trying to insinuate. I don't think requiring immigrants to tolerate and abide the culture of their adopted nation is paramount to "straight up genocide".
He's referring to you referencing the Native Americans, where our "integration policy" for a long time essentially
was straight-up genocide... or at least forcing them more and more west against their will so we could take their lands, which caused enough death (of individuals and of culture) on its own.
I'd also like to know how you define "tolerate and abide". Isn't
following the law enough? Do you intend to somehow force immigrants to do more than is legally required of the rest of us?