[quote=FlyerInHi]Integration is a myth. Prior to the television age and the interstate highway system, America was very fragmented in ethnic communities.

One of the reasons immigrants intergrated before is because they lost touch with their home countries and their relatives. There was nothing but network TV. Now you can order foreign cable channels and there’s the Internet. Remember when you could not even call your relatives back east because long distance was super expensive? The commoditization of jet travel and telecom changed all that.[/quote]

So, do you think it’s preferable that people stay tied to their home countries, refusing to integrate; or do you think people should integrate and try to become part of their host country’s culture?

Maybe you think that people can hold onto their home cultures, not caring whether or not their previous culture fits in with their host country’s culture? Perhaps we should force people who dislike each others’ culture/religion/way-of-life (whether those reasons are “right” or “wrong”), and whose priorities and beliefs are diametrically opposed, to live together in crowded communities. How do you think that will work?