VICTOR DAVIS HANSON ---Why Immigrants Travel West | National Review

Why Immigrants Travel West | National Review:

• Immigrants see what is right about the West. That’s why they come. And then too many critique the very system they left their homelands to join.

"...Newcomers to the West, emulating the hipster progressive Left, sometimes lodge almost immediate complaints about Western civilization, usually the boilerplate that it is racist, biased, and sexist.
But one wonders, given the tribal nature of man, compared with what? 

Is the West religiously intolerant compared with most of the Muslim world?
If so, try building huge Christian cathedrals in Saudi Arabia as counterparts to the current new monumental mosques in Cologne and Rome.

Is the contemporary West racist compared with China?
Japan?
Sexist or homophobic in comparison to Iran?
Prejudicial against the poor in a way not seen in Brazil or Mexico?

The irony of the Left’s scripted charges of racism is that the West since Greek and Roman times was usually the least racist of cultures, at least in the sense that there were always voices, often powerful, objecting to instinctual majority tribalism. 

Imperial Rome’s cities on the shores throughout the Mediterranean were polyglot and multiracial, united not by claims of Italian ancestry, but by Roman law, science, custom, and tradition.

...In other words, if the professed progressive utopian agendas of many current critics of the West had been realized in the past, then AOC’s or Tlaib’s parents would probably never have wished to head westward in the first place.
Give Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez her wish to recalibrate America, and no Puerto Rican would ever wish to immigrate to the American mainland again. 
And if America emulated the social, political, and economic norms south of the border, illegal immigration would end quickly.

After all, why flee from what you find intolerable to what you soon find intolerable?"
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