Kulturkampf

[Uncle]

I find it funny that these fucking animals voluntarily moved to a country that protects its citizens' right to burn any book they choose and then get upset when other citizens exercise that right. 

There are plenty of countries that happily ban the practice of burning religious texts, but they didn't choose to migrate there for many reasons, including that they most likely wouldn't be accepted.

As a child of migrants, I'm very sympathetic to the cause of other migrants, but fuck me these people make it difficult to support them. In fact, you can see how their actions can directly lead to someone like Gert Wilders being elected.

This is a broader thought about immigration, expats, or even tourists. but it’s always crazy to me how people go to different countries and cultures and get mad when everybody else won’t bend to their values. At an early age everyone I knew was taught when you’re in somebody else’s house, you respect their rules. That common courtesy applies to cultures, too. 

As much as Muslim immigrants are in the news, it’s not exclusive. I’ve encountered a shockingly large number of westerners in Japan who, among many things, complain that many Japanese people can’t speak English.

It’s also how years back, there was an effort to assimilate. Still retaining your own culture, but creating a hybrid of sorts, something new entirely. Like how you have distinct Italian-American culture, or Dominican-American, Cuban-American, Iranian-American, etc. Whereas you look at some of the current instances, it’s recreating the culture on another land. Perhaps some loser sociological can explain how the internet let people remain insular rather than needing to engage with other communities to survive.

The Yanks and Chinese are notorious for being awful tourists because of that arrogance and inability or unwillingness to respect other cultures. The Poms are too in places like Greece and Spain.

Australia is one is the most successful multicultural countries in the world BECAUSE the early migrants did exactly what you described. We have very large, distinct and successful Greek, Italian, German, Vietnamese, Polish, Yugoslavian and other communities here because we all assimilated while maintaining our own cultures. Obviously there were some conflicts, but nothing like what we're seeing these days with migration from a few different parts of Asia. 

It's not just a modern thing either because we're getting a lot of migration from Latin America and there are very few issues from those communities.