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Originally Posted by Sangetsu
As for cultures, some are similar to others, some are strong, some are weak, some are good, and some are bad. To be successful in life (and success is the goal of life, right?), one should emulate the things which are successful, and abandon those which are not, and this should include culture.
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Success is hardly the goal of anyone's life, it is merely a tool that people can use to reach the goal of their life.
Ask yourself the question: "What is that I want to be successful for?" And than you'll have an answer which probably better reflects what'd be the goal of YOUR life.
This question though, can give various results like: "I want to be accepted", "I want to be loved", "I want to be able to support my family", "I want to travel" and so on... but you'd hardly want to be successful just to become successful.
What I'm saying is that success is undefinable without context, it varies individually. I mean there are loads of things which are not the slightest important for me(thus have nothing to do with my success) but, I won't say these things should vanish, nor that they are less important or valuable, especially when I don't know much about them...
Not everything is about success in life nor in cultures, in fact most or many of the things which define one culture have not much to do with success...
On topic:
Once a 'country' has thousands of immigrants whom the country's government let or invited to be there, it's not just important to care for them and change for them as much as necessary but it's a duty.
If/When America or any other nation chose to introduce stricter immigration rules, I gladly keep them, I respect the choice of your or any other nations' government.
(Sadly for you your reputation is way ahead of your choices, I mean America is still the land of promise for too many people so no matter how bad it might be they try...)
And I wont say your country is less tolerant because there are sticker rules with immigration. No, in fact I'd say it's a wise decision, cause you cannot just force hundreds of immigrants to change into the spit-image of the original occupants of your country, it's not possible, you have to care for them first and than when there's not much to take care of anymore, you can allow other hundreds or thousands of people to immigrate, whom you also must take care of.
And if you cannot take care of them, than when you allowed them to come to your country, than you acted irresponsibly and probably made them suffer in the name of goodwill or because of negligence...