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Its messy issue whatever way you look at it. There is the problem that anyone expressing legitimate fears about immigration automatically gets stamped as racist, but then there's also the problem that most concerns about immigration arn't really that legitimate; the ex-pat in LA bemoaning the death of Englishness would definitely qualify as the latter in my oppinion.
Cultures, even languages, shift over time due to all kinds of preassures, which isn't to say that you can't try to hang on to what you like about your culture (which is usually an airbrushed, nostalgia ridden, but not entirely useless version of what it truly was/is), but that the chances of it remaining intact and unchanged to any great degree is beyond wishful thinking, immigration or no immigration.
Some people don't seem to be able to keep the real issues separate.
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