RE: More on migration vs. immigration and Umberto Eco
Steve: I think Eco's subtlety either escaped you or got lost in translation, Strother. I think you're trying to apply a negative connotation, which is strictly American, to the word, "ghetto.
Okay, so remove the sentences that include the word "ghetto" and re-read the same Eco selection I quoted. I'll re-post it:
Eco: Migration is "like a natural phenomenon: it happens, and no one can control it... Immigration can be controlled politically, but like natural phenomena, migration cannot be... That's how it will be, whether you like it or not."
My point remains the same. I insist, as Eco offers here, that this migration that we are so concerned with is natural, inevitable, and essentially unstoppable. So now what? If we can't stop it, how can we as a nation make the situations created by this inevitable migration work best for all Americans?
Okay, so remove the sentences that include the word "ghetto" and re-read the same Eco selection I quoted. I'll re-post it:
Eco: Migration is "like a natural phenomenon: it happens, and no one can control it... Immigration can be controlled politically, but like natural phenomena, migration cannot be... That's how it will be, whether you like it or not."
My point remains the same. I insist, as Eco offers here, that this migration that we are so concerned with is natural, inevitable, and essentially unstoppable. So now what? If we can't stop it, how can we as a nation make the situations created by this inevitable migration work best for all Americans?
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