Large unassimilated immigrant communities risk dividing Western societies into separate civilizational blocs

Evidence

The issue is not whether Europe will be Islamicized or the United States Hispanicized. It is whether Europe and America will become cleft societies encompassing two distinct and largely separate communities from two different civilizations, which in turn depends on the numbers of immigrants and the extent to which they are assimilated into the Western cultures prevailing in Europe and America. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 543

Categorization

• DEFINE: “Cleft societies” is the author’s key term for nations split into two distinct civilizational communities.
• XREF: connects to: The West’s imagined independence from outside is failing as borders break down — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2015