Comment by brainwad
4 days ago
+1 to your last point. The best you can hope for as a country is to select immigrants who align better with your ideals than with their home countries'. I think that's why Americans think integration is so easy - because immigrants to America deliberately choose America for its well known ideals. Whereas overland refugees aren't choosing Switzerland or even Europe this way, they are just coming because it's next door.
Yeah, I mostly agree, except that I didn't come to Switzerland because it's next door, but because I was sick of working hard and making no money in my home country - and it was either Switzerland or the US. I had offers from both, but chose Switzerland because at the time I was still brainwashed by the legacy media and believed that the US is hell on Earth (which I regret now)