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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
I agree with this, and it's why you see entire beer league hockey teams made up of first generation immigrants who are often visible minorities.
There is some magic amount of immigration that maintains critical mass of culture, and has people coming into the country very likely to end up adopting largely to those norms within a generation or two.
If you open the floodgates, foreign cultures potentially have critical mass, and you end up with enclaves where language, tradition, cultural norms etc. are imported rather than adopted.
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That just alters how long it takes, there are many many first generation Italian pensioners in Vancouver that can barely speak English despite arriving in Canada 60 years ago, their kids can barely speak Italian their Grandkids are likely to support Manchester or RM