Ross Douthat presents his Ten Theses on Immigration:
- The nation-state is real, and (thus far) irreplaceable.
- Immigration is a perilous solution to demographic decline.
- Culture is very real, and cultural inheritances tend to be enduring.
- Cultural commonalities help assimilation; cultural differences spur balkanization.
- Punctuated immigration encourages assimilation; constant immigration limits it.
- Cosmopolitanism is unusual; tribalism comes naturally.
- [There is no 7. Odd.]
- Native backlash against perceived cultural transformation is very powerful, and any politics that refuses to take account of it will fail.
- Liberal societies are not guaranteed survival.
- Europe and America are different.