If this was the thrust of mid-century European history, the same was to be expected of the immigrant nation of the United States.
They also see themselves as no different from other immigrant nations including those of neighbouring South America:
The United States is an immigrant nation.
He concludes by describing a "post-modern" view, in which cultures within an immigrant nation have blended and inter-married to the extent that toleration becomes an intra-familial affair.
One of the traditions of our immigrant nation is respect for the law.
- "Argentina was also an immigrant nation," he went on.
Australia is an immigrant nation with a large and longstanding multi-ethnic migration program.
Scott, I would add to your observation on the geographical aspect of our monolingualism the nature of our history as an immigrant nation.
But today, Britain is increasingly an immigrant nation with an emerging postindustrial economy.
And the proposals would do so at a high cost to the traditional and humane values of this immigrant nation.