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Originally Posted by Liberty4eva

It seems like countries that are more homogeneous have greater stability. Does anyone here really think that Europe would be experiencing this terrorism problem if they had decided to not let in those millions of refugees? I have never been to Europe but I hope to someday visit my ancestral homeland in Ireland. If I go there I don't want to see a third world ghetto I want to see an Irish town with locals whose roots to the land go back centuries. Jews tend to be some of the biggest advocates for open borders and diversity but when it comes to their Jewish homeland, Israel, they are passionate that it remain a Jewish majority country and only allow people to immigrate there on racial grounds and not religious ones (atheists with Jewish mothers are allowed to immigrate). Random thoughts but here is the question I am posing: Is it okay to not want to become a racial minority in your own country?

This is an interesting question, I have a lot of American cousins and they seem to want when they visit Ireland to meet just Irish people, hotels and restaurants to be staffed by Irish people and in some ways I think they would like people to be sitting around peat fires, playing an accordion and telling stories, its all a bit bizarre given their forefathers were immigrants themselves..