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There is a limit to the number of aliens who can be brought into a nation, particularly as close-knit and concentrated a nation as Britain is, without breaking the bounds of that society and setting up intolerable frictions and stresses as damaging to one side as to the other. Now, this is a question of number. But the relationship between number and difference is clearly important, because the more different they are – and colour is a signal, an outward signal of differences – the greater the difference, the smaller the numbers that can at any one time be accepted without breaking, or being thought to break , the framework of a nation and a society. So it's numbers. (en) |
