Nicholas Wade

The ethnicity is quite mixed and changing.

It's all stable at the moment.

You never know how long that's going to last.

They used to be a common language, but now they're sort of Spanish-speaking enclaves that resist adopting English.

You have to ask, well, what is it that holds Americans together?

It seems to be money right now.

It seems prosperity.

Prosperity holds everyone together.

No need to sort of rock the boat of everyone is reasonably prosperous, at least in relative terms they are.

But if that should fade for any reason,

what would happen?

I don't know.

I don't see the natural bonds of a nation-state being so cohesive that one needn't worry about them.

I think we should start to worry about them

that they are being told or their children are being told at school and they don't stand for the national anthem they don't salute the flag whatever it is that americans are taught to do and that seems to me like an even bigger challenge i would argue yeah i think europe has definitely mishandled uh immigration in the as you say the the american rule was to uh was to integrate everyone uh and and it worked i think it still works uh whereas in europe

I think there's been a general failure of integration.

You have large Muslim communities, and there's nothing wrong with Islam, but here you have a community that doesn't buy into the current ethos.

And religion is extremely important in sort of shaping a nation and interpersonal relations.

And these large Muslim enclaves, I think, are not well integrated, are not well happy.

They're too large for the country to handle easily.