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by twblalock 3433 days ago
> The fact of the matter is where large enough groups of immigrants congregate there will be zero pressure for them to integrate. They will interact with their own, hire their own (ignoring local minimum wage laws), speak their own languages and live in their own bubbles.

Why shouldn't free people in a free country be able to live that way if they want to (aside from ignoring minimum wage laws)?

After all, the whites in New Zealand have been living among themselves, interacting with their own, and speaking their own language since they got there. Did the Maori ever demand that the whites speak their language and live among them according to their customs?

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Ah, a professor of the "two wrongs make a right!" school of human cultural interaction. Shall we just go on displacing each other again and again in human history, and never again form stable societies?

Have you talked to many Chinese people about how they view Maori, btw?

> Why shouldn't free people in a free country be able to live that way if they want to (aside from ignoring minimum wage laws)?

Why should free people in a free country allow people to immigrate to their own ghetto's?

> Why should free people in a free country allow people to immigrate to their own ghetto's?

Because they do not, and should not, have a right to tell other people what neighborhoods they are allowed to live in.

But they have a right to not allow them in the country at all.