Countries are not merely economic zones..! While I don't even agree with you (skilled immigrants are very different from unskilled), even if I did, anti immigration sentiment is largely about culture. I would prefer to live in my own culture than to be slightly richer in someone else's culture.

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SmirkingRevenge 5 hours ago | parent [-]

In the US, anti-immigrant sentiment is often the highest in regions with relatively few immigrants, far away from the border. The less that immigrants are part of peoples daily lives, the more people seem to fear for their "culture".

Presuming to have any real agency over the evolution of human culture also seems misguided. Culture is like a river, in that "no man ever steps into the same one twice". It's constantly changing in unpredictable ways, from generation to generation or even within generations, with or without immigration. That goes for the cultures of immigrants also.

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eudamoniac 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The more people stand to lose, the more they fear losing it? shocking. (I don't even think that's true. Southern border states are a lot more concerned with illegal crossings than anywhere else. People who have to live near ethnic ghettos have a bigger problem with them than the coastal elites pushing for it. Etc)

Pretending that importing millions of foreigners will not affect the culture whatsoever is just a dumb or disingenuous argument, sorry. We already see a microcosm of it with Indian tech workers, having constant scandals about only hiring other Indians of their caste, and with the southern border states having dual spanish language signs everywhere. UK has issues with Islamic tension today already.

It is so fundamentally obvious that mass immigration from non-western cultures will produce non-westernized cultural changes, that otherwise wouldn't happen, that I have to just assume you are intentionally pretending not to understand that.

	▲	menuthrowaway an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah! Amen brother! We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children, because the beauty of the White Aryan woman must not perish from the earth Twinkies and Yoohoo are our legacy and we mustn't let a bunch of empanada/samosa/tihlo/wonton eating darkies take that away from us! We must expel all the buckwheats, beaners, chinks and other slants (although the LBFMs can stay as pleasure brigades as long as they're sterilized) and dotheads from our great nation. We must Make America Great Again and enjoy our ketchup, spam and Jolt Cola! 1488 forever!