[Tennyson]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

I don't make it anything more than what it really is. It is heritage. A few foreign European elements can be shock absorbed without even noticing. But as numbers approach levels of significance both in numbers and in difference, that heritage becomes more vulnerable.

Heritage is a vague concept.

You call that identity.

I am talking about the hard legal concept of citizenship.

Yet I have seen honest Americans admitting that they are a people confused about their identity, because it is non-existent. Which is why you see them clinging to those fantastic, to the point of ridiculous pseudo-identities. You see them claiming long and ancient lineages one moment, and the next moment admitting that they don't know who their father was.

I don't regard this as relevant from our perspective as European nationalists. Why should I be offended if they have a weak national identity?

The personal worth of an individual does not derive from the strength of the national spirit of his people. All the better if American immigrants have no strong identity as Americans. They could more easily become Finns than a patriotic Spaniard. In the case of a person like you I would regard that as pretty much impossible.

Besides, it was the lower class of Europeans which populated the colonies. An average American is not a worse person than an average Briton of corresponding social status. In fact, America and Britain are both Anglo-Saxon countries and very much alike.

Because of this I am skeptical towards anti-Americanism as Britain should be left outside any kind of construct of European unity opposed to America and historically more inclined to the more culturally meaningful Atlantic cooperation.

But not with more hoaxes. The numbers of American engineers are statistically of no significance there.

The example signified the fact that the economic benefits of the immigration of highly educated immigrants and people from OECD countries is used to cover up the costs of refugees, asylum seekers and illegal immigrants.

Vlaams Belang's rise has been cut off in part by the vote of the immigrant population.

On the other hand, when the traditional leftist parties increasingly become the parties of immigrants who seek to blatantly transform the policies to reflect their own ethno-specific interests native population is increasingly alienated by them.

The electoral poster of Front National reflects the awareness of this fact.

The poster of French Front National with a Black girl? How does it relate to this?

I'm afraid that the picture is much more complex than that. In a market economy, economic sustainability is a constant exercise of equilibrium over a tightrope. Market economy is designed in a complex and entangled way in which, if one brick is missing the entire building crumbles. The dependence on global economy has made this equilibrium the more fragile.

We are, I'm afraid, sitting over a time bomb.

Unemployed immigrants are hardly integrated to the system of market economy and their role in the economy is completely analogous to their needy compatriots in Third World: a drain of money.