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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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Of course the reason I referred to is economic. I doubt anyone needed that clarification.
The state's control of immigration isn't some enormous special problem. We're talking about normal daily issues of a normal functioning society that are being magnified into crucial dilemmas by cynics and racists and those who are taken in by their rhetoric.
Immigrants do not pose any threat to our way of life. That's a total fantasy and a very dangerous one. The anti-immigrant enthusiasts, however, are determined to roll back certain very important progressive aspects of our culture - and they actually have the power to do so. It's absolutely pitiful to pretend to be so fragile as to feel threatened by small restaurant owners - or at least some propaganda depictions of them.