It’s an oft-heard complaint, even a canard, about white people in general and white conservatives in particular. The immigration issue is framed in terms of white dislike for other races. It’s misleading, even among most white right-wing types. While it’s true that some whites do harbor disdainful, contemptuous, hostile, and even hateful views in regards to nonwhite groups, sometimes grounded in facts (especially black criminality) and sometimes grounded in ignorance(of different peoples & cultures), the main issue regarding mass immigration isn’t about race/ethnicity but territoriality.As he explains, most people, all over the world, do not want their communities invaded by a foreign ethnicity or culture.
Why? He tries to explain it. People like their own kind, regardless of the characteristics of the foreigners.
I am not sure the reasons matters. In some cases, people do not like being around the others. In other cases, the foreigners bring in crime and other problems. In some cases, the foreigners are nice and well-behaved, but they play soccer instead of baseball, eat rice instead of potatoes, and prefer to speak another language.
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