Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
That is quite literally a national socialist perspective of someone who is okay with only having socialism in her or his own country while the rest of the world is not important.
A pragmatist would recognise that it is easier to unite people the less that divides them. A division a long cultural lines is going to provide unnecessary noise by introducing topics, potentially quite heated, into the public debate that didn't need to be there at all (there were few or no hijab or burka debates in Western Europe a certain amount of decades ago, for natural reasons).

A lot of wealthy people are also for high immigration rates, which is not very surprising. Immigrants can provide cheap labour, and any social unrest or areas with high crime rates is unlikely to affect the places where they live, and the security of those areas they can easily boost anyway, thanks to their wealth.


do something about the causes (poverty, conflict, often, but not always, caused by the richer countries)
Yet, the migrants are highest on the agenda. Integrating them into Western welfare states is going to cost fortunes, and one of the places the extra money required to pay for this integration is likely to come from, is the budget for aid to poorer countries.