pcr again here on immigration and its results;

How the Western World Became a Tower of Babel

Paul Craig Roberts

Nations are turned into towers of babel via immigration.  A nation has a homogeneous population–French, German, Dutch, English, Italian, Spanish.  Initially, the English colonies that became the United States were English. Over time (until 1965) the US accepted immigrants from other European countries–Irish, Poles, Germans, Dutch, Italians, Scandinavians. The immigration system turned these immigrants into Americans, essentially Englishmen, as English views of law, politics, and history were inherited by the English colonies that became  the United States. Immigrants had to learn English, pass a test on the Constitution, and be turned into Americans, an amalgam of white European ethnicities.

It was easy to turn Europeans into Americans.  All Europeans shared mores based in Christianity.  Their histories were interwoven. All had an aristocratic heritage. However dishonorable some individual aristocrats might have been, for the aristocratic class honor was a meaningful concept that restrained dishonorable tendencies.  

Aristocratic mores filtered down into the population. They were still present in Britain in the 1960s when I was a student at Oxford University. There was no assurance that people would behave correctly, but there were no excuses for those who did not. ........more..........