“Locally we took in a bunch of displaced Albanians, haven’t seen or heard squat about it since.”
Oh, you will. It should go something like this...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931582/posts
“The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.” - Benjamin Rush
I suppose, wasn't too worried about it in the immediate future, but your link is certainly something to keep on the radar.
Some powers seem to want this. My question is if they are going to be independent, why not repatriate them? The powers (don't know who is behind all this ethnic diversity) don't seem to encourage that either.
I try to be open-minded about ethnicities and getting along, but it isn't rocket science to see that a country with so many conflicting interests can't last very long, Obama's message of hope notwithstanding.
It's little things that have a way of building up to bigger things. I remember at work a Jewish lawyer complaining about the smells of oriental cooking in her apartment :-). Sounds minor enough, but things have a way of building up.
Let's be brutally honest here. Americans have never been very homogenous, let's-all-get-along, even among European immigrants. There have always been ethnic clashes rooted in ethnicity, that simmers just below the surface to this very day. And it can get serious. I'm in an area predominately settled by Germans. During WWII, I'm told that you had better not be heard speaking German on the streets. Just a for instance.
And to this day, there are southerners who really don't like us Yankees, although they tolerate us. I'm sure it's a carryover from the civil war.