It's Not Wide-Eyed Optimism…

…if it has basis in fact.
The Fact: The United States has an unmatched ability to integrate and enrich immigrants to our country. We have absorbed wave after wave of immigrant groups without shaking our country’s underlying culture of freedom and equality. Each successive wave of integration has boosted our enforcement of equality under the law. The waves of Irish, Italians and Poles rid this country of mainstream anti-Catholic bias. Hispanics are being integrated and we are moving right along into mainstreaming and Americanizing the Hispanic culture (think Taco bell, Chipotle and J.Lo). At the same time as the Hispanics wave there is an Asian wave and they are successfully being integrated into our country (sushi anyone).

I realize this just glossing over the issue of integration (now there’s a weird autotext insert from Word, it offered up Intel Corp when typing integration), but I haven’t seen any bad things to come from immigration to this country unless you don’t want any change at all.

Here is an interesting column on conservatism by John Derbyshire. Read it and tell me if you think he is joking or serious.