>To claim a "homeland" in someone else's home and then
>make rules about who is allowed to become a citizen and who
>is not allowed is about as "racist" as one can get. The IDEA
>itself is problematic because one feels that they can go
>anywhere and rule without regard to previous inhabitants.

And here...

>Europe has a history of sending its unwanted citizens to
>other people's backyard only to find that in a few years,
>those people are either dead or told that their home is no
>longer theirs.

We (US citizens) can look to the Puritans as an example of this.