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Old 12-14-2010, 02:05 AM   #89
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Originally Posted by Henry Fool View Post
...but it has been made into the major political problem of our times even in countries like Finland where there are very few immigrants by any comparative standard and when the serious studies show that the society will in fact need more immigration in the future. It tells us that it is not about the real number of immigrants but something more sinister.
Keep in mind the reason Finland "needs" immigration is probably to sustain a diminishing birth replacement rate to undergird their economy. This is the principal argument for immigration is almost all first-world countries.

The need for the replacement of a population is distinct from a society's desire for an identity, and must be kept so, since they are entirely separate issues. The need for a stable working population does not demand we rescind the progressive aspects of our culture.
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