... immigration as a necessary tool to establish culture diversity. In Immigration and the Imagined Community in Europe and the United States, Citrin states "It appears that the long history of ethnic and religious diversity in the United States has produced a distinctive, and more favorable, orientation toward cultural heterogeneity" (Citrin 37). Citrin points out that the ... Increased immigration and diversity are not only inevitable, but over the long run they are also desirable. Ethnic diversity is, on balance, an important social asset, as the history of my own country demonstrates" (...

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