Protest noted, m'lady.

We could fire countries at each other all night. It would get us nowhere.

My point is this: multiculturalism cannot be solely used as the reason for why the USA is a wealthy country. It is far more complex and nuanced than that. For example, the USA's natural resources, geographical location and relatively advanced colonial era society all contributed to its success.

Has multiculturalism contributed to America's success? Definately. Is America a true multicultural society: outside of the main metropolitan cities, no. Buttf*** County, Alabama is not the multicultural oasis the 5 Boroughs are.

my argument was to take issue with Hrolf's point that

"the so called liberal left attitude is to deny certain realities to perpetuate the idea that the majority believe in multiculturalism and see it as a positive thing when in fact the opposite us largely true. Multiculturalism will not work"

Countries like the UK and US demonstrably disprove this point and we are all richer - culturally and economically as a result. Are there limits to movement yes there are and I disagree with the resort to "racist" that weeks to close down discussion though it is often racists that are the loudest. We would be in a terrible mess without immigration and multiculturalism. I have had to go to the hospital regularly over the last six months. Wonder what staffing would be like if those Africans and eastern Europeans weren't there working hard and paying taxes,

That really is subjective. There is also rarely a set of circumstances that are all good or all bad. It is the balance that is in question and exactly how many people are better off in any sense.

One could argue that the people of Earth could be well served by becoming homogenized. The process could be sped up by mixing cultures but that will be a very painful one for many generations. I would suggest that such a process could just as easily take place via technology and commerce. Already a large part of the world population is more similar culturally than it has been in the past. One day everyone hopefully will be similar enough to mix more easily but until then many of us who are seeing our countries filling up with alien cultures will feel uncomfortable.

Bertie, I appreciate that you haven't encountered this because you live in a county where the population is over 97% white but the rate of immigration over the past decade has ruined communities.

Do you not think that instead of just dumping people in places, those encouraging immigration should have done more to assist in integration of people into communities, whilst also seeking to give comfort to those living in said communities that they will not be ignored?

If that had happened, Remain might have won the Referendum.