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Originally Posted by bombadillo
I believe Germany has an even higher immigrant population than Britain. There's an old joke that Frankfurt is the largest city -- in Turkey. One can't even laugh at it.
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I'm not sure, but I believe that once immigration reaches a certain demographic threshold, it is not the quantity but the degree and the forms of entrenchment (a better word would be.. making a literal translationg from Spanish:
encystment ... does it make sense?) that makes the difference.
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