It's good that you like Americans.SooBee wrote: We have problems and advantages connected with the safe assimilation of immigrants just as you do. If trying to be nice to them so as to settle them in quickly is the socialist problem you see in us then I suggest you check our position on the map. We are an island...manning our borders is nigh on impossible except through ports of entry. We are also the end of the rainbow. Best to make friends except when the friendship proves unfriendly.
We tend to like Brits
That being said, understand what I meant in what I said.
Our criticism of you Brits isn't so much in the whole immigration thing, you guys aren't the only ones fighting the influx of immigrants who refuse to assimilate into their new society. The Russians, French, Germans, Swedes and some others are all fighting that battle along with you.
The main problem American conservatives have with your style of governance is the expectation many Brits have of cradle to grave care by the State. We don't see that as a proper role of government, and I would hope that by being on a prep website, even a Brit prep site, that many of you would share that sentiment. Such a pervasive level of government is unsustainable in the long term.
We Americans look at things like some of your gov't programs, British laws that we read about, etc, and have to just shake our heads. Don't get me wrong....there are many Americans who would love to see some of your laws replicated here. We try to tell such folks that if they want those kinds of laws, they should move to where those laws currently exist rather than forcing them on American citizens who don't wish to be subjected to such regulation.
