ricechickie
Gold Member
It doesn't matter whether it's xenophobia or not. Even if it is it's entirely defensible. When you invite a guest into your home and the guest starts demanding that you change your family customs, the guest is out of line. Same with immigration, the people of the welcoming nation HAVE NO OBLIGATION to change. They like their culture as it is. Trying to shame them by calling them xenophobes is, admittedly, an improvement over calling them racists, but it's still an unwarranted accusation. They can be xenophobes and they're still right and have the winning moral argument. The onus of change falls on the person who CHOSE to come to America, not on the people of America to bend to the wishes of the newly arrived.
Almost 319,000,000 people own this house. There's no set of "family customs."
There are rights. Rights enumerated by the Constitution.