[fche]

> you lose nothing

Right, and if those unskilled immigrants don't all find jobs as nannies and nurses (since I won't be the only one keeping them from the most vulnerable), then I'll be taxed to pay for them anyway. That's not "nothing".

If the cultures are very different, and they come in huge numbers that refuse to assimilate, then I suffer dilution of mine. That's not "nothing" either.

[conanbatt]

> then I'll be taxed to pay for them anyway. That's not "nothing".

Taxed to pay them what. If you have a beef with welfare programs in the us, you should take it with the welfare programs. Foreigners never had a voice or a vote in terms of what qualified for such kinds of programs.

> If the cultures are very different, and they come in huge numbers that refuse to assimilate, then I suffer dilution of mine. That's not "nothing" either.

This argument could be made verbatim against many things that today are considered bigotry or illegal.

[fche]

> Foreigners never had a voice or a vote

Indeed - and they should not be a beneficiary either. Do you for a moment believe that "New Deal" / "Great Society" laws would ever have passed, if under the understanding that the whole population of the Earth would be entitled to receive it?

> This argument could be made verbatim ... that today are considered bigotry

That does not make the argument erroneous, only un-PC.

[conanbatt]

> That does not make the argument erroneous, only un-PC.

It makes it heinous, because heinous things are said and done with that argument. "We shouldn't hire women, because they will affect the culture we have", etc.

[fche]

Are you of the impression that women are of a very different culture, come in huge numbers that refuse to assimilate? Where is this?

[sethrin]

What exactly is cultural dilution? It sounds like a dog whistle for base tribalism.