Western Europe and the U.S.: Different Asians?
I like this piece by Niall Ferguson in the Jan/Feb Atlantic (Registration required).
Not only is Western Europe becoming more secular, while the U.S. remains evangelical, and is perhaps increasingly so; but the Asian immigrants to Western Europe are largely Moslems--especially Arabs in France, Turks in Germany. Europeans can say there are a number of reasons to stay out of a Middle East war: prudent caution about near-term prospects; the need to maintain long-term relationships with the regimes now in place there; and fear of terrorists.
The U.S. receives lots of Asian immigrants, but mostly not Moslems/Arabs/Turks. Significant numbers of Chinese, and people from the Indian sub-continent--the very people who are probably gaining at home as well as in the New World. Is Europe becoming a backwater in more ways than one?
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