I think cultural enclaves will be a fact of life in any progressive immigration based society. If you're really serious about repressing aspects of the cultures of incoming peoples for the greater good of your progressive society I think you have to impose some pretty strict integration policies backed by the coercive force of the state. Those types of policies themselves will be criticized in a progressive state because they inherently impinge upon individual freedoms. Interestingly, the tension seems most evident in the conservative religious element of the progressive society who are distrustful of cultural immigration but who also rail against the secular agenda to divorce religion from the governance of society. If the latter were to occur, issues of adopting irrational legal systems based on the ideas of a particular religious sect would be laughable.
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