Quote:but I do dislike intensely the (thankfully) short lived proclivities of any new ethnic group to segregate themselves off and try to make ethnic enclaves where they can reimplement the very place they came from.
However, Moros, the history of immigration in America is filled with such examples and virtually every group which arrives has created one of those enclaves. Manhattan has its Chinatown, and Little Italy, and Spanish Harlem. The Germans clustered in Brooklyn.
Today there are Greeks in Astoria, Queens; Russians in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn; Chinese in Flushing, Queens; Poles in Greenpoint, Brooklyn....you get the picture. The difference is that these enclaves do not insist that the rest of NY conform to their beliefs and practices which is what it sounds as if muslims are trying to pull in Europe.
Immigration in the US has generally been insular for the first generation but the children think of themselves as Americans and their parents were more than happy to push them to assimilate. It is the assimilation piece that seems to be missing in Europe. I have some suspicions about why that is but I think it stems from the fact that islam is a religion and not an ethnicity.
