“… we can’t afford…
“… we can’t afford the rise of balkanized silos or a salad-bowl scenario.”
Yeah, that would be horrible. I mean, we could end up like Switzerland or Belgium.
Unless, just maybe, violence in certain multinational societies (French immigrant ghettoes, the Balkans, Iraq) has more to do with issues of constitutional politics, and not much at all to do with cultural “assimilation” or the lack of it, after all?