NCFisher
"White folx tiring me with Caudacity..."
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Its not. You get too many cultures too close together and there are usually issues. Acceptable in one culture is an insult in another.
A good point; early immigration worked well because micks, wops, limeys, frogs, rutabagas, fish-eaters, sheep shaggers, Herms, wogs, dagos, etc. had worked out a number of differences over millennia and were either Catholic or Protestant. They all drank, traded together, and much of the cultural diversity was putting tomato sauce on bread instead of butter and/or jam. Jarlsberg vs, well, an actual laundry list of great cheeses, or thirty varieties of intestine-cased meats.
In short, they were white Europeans. So, when people say "immigrants built this country and are the backbone" or "immigration made this country great"...uhm, okay but lets be clear about whom we're discussing.
I disagree with the premise anyway; what made this country great was being a constitutional republic of multiple constitutional states in which law was equally applied and the recognition of inalienable, individual rights. Of course people migrated for that.