This is an interesting one.
I have posted my fair share of "anti immigration" appends on AB in the last few years, but a program this week made me think a bit.
Did anyone see "Who do you think you are" on BBC TV this week with Zoe Wannamaker?
She is jewish, as is of course her father Sam Wannamaker the actor (now dead).
To look at both Zoe and Sam you would think they and their families had been in "the west" for years, but in fact their family came over from Russia to America in the early 1900s.
MILLIONS of Jews escaped from Russia in the early 1900s, and many went to Chicago, which has the 3rd largest Jewish population after Israel and New York.
They showed a picture in the program showing the jews landing in the USA, and I have to say many had rags on, and headscarves They looked somewhat like the Muslims we see walking our streets today.
Yet within a few years these Jews were wearing western clothes, and fitting in with their "western" way of life.
Sam Wannamaker (an actor) came to England, and was one of the people who campaigned strongly for the building of the Shakespeare's Globe Theate in London.
Sadly he died just before the theatre was finished.
I guess most of his family had never even heard of Shakespeare, maybe he was the first member of his family who did.
But if his Russian family had not gone to the USA in the early 1900s, we may not have a memorial theatre in London to Englands greatest playwright.
It makes you think.