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Dear
Sir/Madam,
As a
historian,
Prof. Ferguson
should know
better than to
compare
America with
Europe in
respect to
immigration
and immigrant
integration (his
comment in
today's Sunday
Telegraph).
Apart from a
handful of
natives,
virtually
all Americans
are
immigrants.
And all they
have to
identify with
is a mere 230
years of
American
history .
Europe, in
contrast, has
a
predominately
indigenous
population
(well mixed,
but
distinctively
European,
nevertheless)
and more than
2500 years of
recorded
history, not
to mention
millennia of
prehistory
stretching way
back into the
stone age.
Immigrants in
Europe can
adopt our
languages and
many aspects
of western
culture, but
to expect them
to adopt our
history and
identity, as
well, when
they have
histories and
identities of
their own
(which they
are reminded
of every time
they look into
a mirror,
since there is
no getting
away from the
fact that the
history of
Western
civilisation
is, as the
former BBC
chairman, Greg
Dyke, might
put it,
"hideously
white"), is
entirely
misconceived -
and dangerous.
Besides which,
Western Europe
is already
overpopulated.
It is a
godsend that a
natural
decline in
population has
set in. Seeing
this as a
problem and
allowing mass
immigration is
pure madness -
although,
typically
European!
Yours
sincerely
Roger Hicks
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