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Originally Posted by Capsicum
Aside from the rule of law which is taken as given of course, I suppose the question of whether the reason it's seen as being a "free for all" is due to (relative) lack of social pressure, rather than legal pressure?
So, in Canada, the US or all other immigrant-receiving countries, the newcomers all have legal pressures to assimilate (eg. requirements for citizenship, obeying laws of new countries), but Canada is lower in social pressure or social barriers to assimilate even if selective in policy or legal barriers to entry, while the other countries have both stronger social and legal pressures to fit in?
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IMO it's definitely more a question of social pressure (or lack thereof). Though the state and various public institutions often play a role in the level of social pressure.
The legal framework is relatively similar in most of the countries we're talking about.