When European politicians claim that France, Britain, or The Netherlands are not traditional “immigrant countries” like the US, they are right only up to a point, as the examples of Spinoza, Disraeli, and Sarkozy show. What is true is that large numbers of de facto immigrants have accumulated in many countries in a very short time, in a haphazard way that makes it seem as though no government was ever in control.
当欧洲政治家们宣称法国，英国或者荷兰并非美国那样的“传统移民国家”时，他们只说对了其中一部分，因为斯宾诺莎，迪斯雷利和萨科齐的存在已经说明了很多问题。实际上大量的实质性移民都在一个很短的时期内聚集到了许多国家，而他们到来的方式是如此随意而杂乱，仿佛从来就没有任何政府尝试控制过似的。