Rebuttable to Immigration Reform
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> First, the arguments are ahistorical. Almost any great empire in the world w$
> necessarily multilingual and multicultural, including China, India, the Arab
> caliphates,
> Turkey, the Austrian Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Roman Empire. Th$
> be
> to survive through changing circumstances. Very few Roman emperors after Com$
> could
> be considered "Roman," and many of the later emperors (who reigned centuries $
> fall of the Western Empire) such as Philip the Arab did not even speak Latin.$
> left of the Roman Empire after the Emperor Diocletian, which persisted for an$
> millennium, spoke mostly (but by no means entirely) Greek.
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>
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> The success of the Romans was due famously to their ability to manage differe$
> cultures.
> People moved around. There were Greek colonies in Italy and Roman colonies $
> the
> empire. The first century Latin writer Juvenal noted how many non-Latin spea$
> other places lived in Rome, outnumbering the Romans (he actually decried the $
> much like the author does below). Yet despite this multiculturalism (or actu$
> because
> of it) the empire persisted for centuries more...