Saving America With Immigration

XENOPHOBIA IS AN INHERENT HUMAN TRAIT, to which there is little resistance. People everywhere are tempted, often irresistibly, to exclude "others" from their society. The more xenophobic a society, the less likely it is to endure, because new blood stimulates culture. To inculcate a "we against the world" attitude is to invite the world to emerge victorious in a competitive world. Xenophobic societies throughout history have tended to refer to themselves as "the people", as if to imply, "we the only people". In ancient Egypt, pre-European America, or NAZI Germany, xenophobic attitudes stifled cultural evolution and encouraged cultural decay. Without cultural infusion, growth and cultural adjustment tend to stagnate, and with it, society. The glory of the Roman empire is that it grew by incorporating foreign lands, thoughts, and people into its domain, exploited their resources, and adopted their culture. First the Greek gods became the Roman gods, Greek literature and culture in general became Roman, and most profoundly, the Christian religion, which emerged in the near East as one of many primitive fertility cults, flourished within, and nurtured the Roman empire, as it spread across the Mediterranean, all because of the roman willingness to adopt to changing circumstances, and the emperor Constantine's desire to preserve his personal power. In the United States, we repeatedly remind ourselves that we are a nation of immigrants, while suffering from periodic bouts of xenophobia, as we are now doing. In the United States, further immigration is essential for our national survival. The birth rate has dropped to less than two children per couple, and without immigration into America, America will become a land of diminishing population, a diminishing population of elderly people, without enough young folk to do the work required to grow the economy. Immigrants tend to be young, healthy, ambitious, and hard working. Europe and Japan have the same problem. In Europe, immigration is even now breathing new life into the continent, but in Japan, xenophobia is reducing the Japanese population, turning the country into an old folks home, and shrinking the economy. Japan must choose to either admit non-orientals, or inevitably perish. We in America are confronted with the same choice.