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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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Even with low immigration rates, what immigrants there are would likely to tend to concentrate themselves in specific areas for language, cultural, and financial reasons. And these concentrations allow for neighbourhoods to have their own cultural identities, which I actually enjoy exploring.