Mark, I’m sorry to have gotten the numbers wrong. But since you referred to my views as sappy nonsense, let me return the favor. The same sort of sentimental , hysterical, culturally backward, America-is-being-destroyed-from-within nonsense that you spout was common in the early part of the 20th century. It was wrong then, and it’s wrong now, for many if not all the same reasons. Yes, what matters is what is best for America. False notions of cultural homogeneity are not what is best for America, in my view. Your view differs. History — American history — is kinder to my view than it is to yours. And, though curses be on my head for saying so, you are, in fact, damned lucky that your view did not prevail when your grandfather from Izmir was looking for a place to live. Because then you wouldn’t have a grandfather from Izmir. Because there would be no you.