Insufferable immigrant attitudes.

One barrier here [to integration of immigrants] is an imported value system that is often underpinned by religion. Historically, successful migrants left their home because they realized that their system has failed them. Consequently, they were attracted to the receiving society‘s system and viewed it as superior to the one they had escaped. Today this is not always the case. The values imported often echo anti-modernist, anti-Western and pre-industrialized prejudices. By these standards, not the tradition-mired old system has failed. Much rather the success of the host is presumed to have been achieved either by “good luck” or by the exploitation of the newcomer’s country of origin.

* * * Here a complicating element emerges. . . . There is an element among the migrants that is not drawn by the chance of betterment as it is rather lured by the social support services it finds.

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* * * To move into a community with a divergent tradition and then to insist that it must conform to rigidly advocated alien ways, contradicts reason, fairness and threatens the rights of the hosts. No claim pretending to rely on warped principles must to be allowed to stand in order to justify such capitulation at the expense of sovereignty.

Unfortunately, just such attitudes are suffered to exist.

"Migration, Racism and Tolerance." By George Handlery, The Brussels Journal, 12/30/07 (with an interesting comment by RoyE on the recklessness of social engineers)(emphasis added).