Immigration and Racism in Britain and USA

Immigration is currently a hot topic in the UK and by all accounts also, in the southern USA.

Expansion of the EU has given a lot of foreign workers, notably from former Iron Curtain countries, the right to live and work in Britain.
War in the former Yugoslavia has created a huge refugee problem, and many of these refugees wish to come to Britain.

Some immigrants, for a variety of understandable reasons, wish to keep their cultural identity, and their religious adherence, and even their language. This can cause a problem for the host nation, witnessed by the fact that recent bomb outrages in London were done by muslims born in this country. So, to some people, the muslim community becomes "the enemy within" and this fear is causing a rise in nationalist right-wing political parties. Not, to my mind, a good thing.

So, is there a solution or a set of measures we should be taking to counter this potential unrest? Please keep the discussion sensible, bearing in mind our obligations to provide asylum where justified and our society's need to balance emigration.

Anymouse, You're absolutely wrong on Japan; they're about the most discriminatory race on this planet, and they even discriminate not only by race, but by economic class. Go back and do some studying.

It's not the integration of different races that creates problem for any society; it's people that likes to group others by any subjective measure they can dream up.

You also need to study history of all cultures with a good serving of anthropology.

Anymouse, What you said was:
The perfect examples I can give you where there is no immigration and no problems, the sort of which Western European and America are dealing with are the Koreas, and Japan, some of the most homogenous societies on earth.

YOu said "no immigration and no problems." Wrong; they have plenty of problems with the Chinese and Koreans living in Japan. No country is purely homogenous. Korea has Chinese and Japanese living there.

Japan and Korea have a virtual absence of crime, a share purpose and heritage. Since there is homogeneity, there is no social conflict since much of the people get the same educations and the same traditions. There are no lawyers waiting to sue every thing that is offensive, there is no equal opportunity laws, no hate crime laws, no discrimination laws, and a plethora of other bureaucratic legislations that plague the Western world in terms of multicultural sensitivity. As such, I am only pointing out that multiculturalism and its problems cannot be solved unless you get rid of multiculturalism, which is not the case. And as such, you must accept the problems that come with the territory so to speak.

Japan's national police agency recorded 2.85m crimes last year, a 60% increase from a decade earlier and the highest number reported since the end of the second world war.

But despite their garish style, the yakuza cannot be taken lightly. In Japan there are 110,000 active members divided into 2,500 families. By contrast, the United States has more than double the population of Japan but only 20,000 organized crime members total, and that number includes all criminal organizations, not just the Italian-American Mafia. The yakuza's influence is more pervasive and more accepted within Japanese society than organized crime is in America, and the yakuza have a firm and long-standing political alliance with Japan's right-wing nationalists. In addition to the typical vice crimes associated with organized crime everywhere, the yakuza are well ensconced in the corporate world. Their influence extends beyond Japanese borders and into other Asian countries, and even into the United States.

I am very much afraid that Mr. Walter Hinteler knows little about Japan and crime rates. Anonymouse is correct about the effect of homogeneity.

If Mr. Hinteler would examine the Wikipedia, he would find that the Japanese CONVICTED FOR THEFT totals 17,247 while Germany, a country with 30 or 40 Million fewer residents had 132,964 CONVICTED FOR THEFT.

These are figures for the 2000 year!!!

The whole point of this thread---made by anonymouse---is that heterogenous societies have more difficulties of all types than heterogeneous societies. That is an irrefutable point. (Emphasis added)

The facts remain that the seeds for today's conflict between an aroused and backward Moslem World and the West were all planted during the era of European colonialism and misrule priior to and following WWI.