(June 28, 2011 at 2:07 pm)Anymouse Wrote: The locals never want to integrate with immigrants; integration is a two-way street. "You can live here but you gotta be like me" is not freedom. It is a different sort of slavery: a slavery to a culture that says "you must be like us."
I don't think it's slavery at all. Do you have a choice about moving to another country? On the whole yes (although I'm sure you'll try and come back with some special case scenario). If you choose to move to another country with a particular culture then I don't think it's too much to ask to at least integrate somewhat with that culture.
Culture is an important part of what makes any country, and to deny that you may as well deny the earth is round. Sure it would be great if we could all just go where we please, and live where we like, and do what we want. But that's not how the world works is it.
Speaking of freedom, the western world has always granted more freedom than anywhere else in this world.
