The Melting Pot By The American Dream
But in this clear-sighted and courageous book, Salam persuasively argues that without a radical reform of the U. That is what is really being asked when we debate whether American immigration policy should be open or closed.
Thankfully, Reihan Salam reveals this dichotomy to be a false choice. We can live in a middle class country that welcomes newcomers—if we can live with middle-of-the-road limits rather than absolutist extremes. Einloggen Account erstellen.
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Einkaufswagen 0 Zur Kasse. Melting Pot or Civil War? For too long, liberals have suggested that https://amazonia.fiocruz.br/scdp/blog/story-in-italian/the-american-flag-more-than-just-a.php cruel, racist, or nativist bigots would want to restrict immigration.
Anyone motivated by compassion and egalitarianism would choose open, or nearly-open, borders—or so the argument goes. Now, Reihan Salam, the son of Bangladeshi immigrants, turns this argument on its head.
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In this deeply researched but also deeply personal book, Salam shows why uncontrolled immigration is bad for everyone, including people like his family. Our current system has intensified the isolation of our native poor, and risks ghettoizing the children of poor immigrants.
It ignores the challenges posed by the declining demand for less-skilled labor, even as it exacerbates ethnic inequality and deepens our political divides. If we continue on our current course, in which immigration policy serves wealthy insiders who profit from cheap labor, and cosmopolitan extremists attack the legitimacy of borders, the rise of a new ethnic underclass is inevitable.
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Even more so than now, class politics will be ethnic politics, and national unity will be impossible. Salam offers a solution, if we have the courage to break with the past and https://amazonia.fiocruz.br/scdp/blog/woman-in-black-character-quotes/the-issue-of-violence-against-women.php an immigration policy that serves our long-term national interests. Rejecting both militant multiculturalism Draem white identity politics, he argues that limiting total immigration and favoring skilled immigrants will combat rising inequality, balance diversity with assimilation, and foster a new nationalism that puts the interests of all Americans—native-born and foreign-born—first.]
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