Quote Originally Posted by flan7211 View Post
hahahaha ok big guy, you can associate his theories with the American School which built the US into a economic superpower.

Also other than your trite responses such as "collectivism" you've provided nothing. You won't respond to anything other than economics. What of culture friend?
Free market economics built America into an economic powerhouse, not nationalist bullshit.

Culture changes. Values continue to matter, particularly in the case of rational egoism and free markets. The people who stay and vote are the ones who are most attracted to here and who will adopt those values.

By generation 2, most offspring of immigrants (legal and illegal) are bilingual. Starting with gen 3, significant percentages don't even speak spanish. If you want a proxy for assimilation, there's a half decent one.

The fact is, I think citizenship should be hard to get and residency easy to get. Our legal system provides for that already; let's just use it

Go visit boston and you'll see a ton of IRISH PRIDE and Irish flags. No one goes whining that they're not assimilating. If they like Mexico they can go back to it any time, as you've mentioned; so it seems unlikely that people who just don't like the US would stay long term anyway.