This is more the way i would like it to work, rather than what we see in practice.
There are three broad ways of doing things:
One extreme - normative multiculturalism with parallel communities. (Britain)
The other extreme - you are french¬!!!! with ghettoes for those that haven't become french enough. (France)
A happy medium - the melting pot - if 10% of the pop are immigrants, the natives become 10% foriegn and the immigrants 90% american. (USA)
That is obviously simplifying things greatly, but i think both Britain and France could do with a closer look at the melting pot idea.
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