Do refugees from other countries try to "change the society" which they enter, or are they simply continuing the customs they practiced in their homelands? Don't make me say that Europeans changed societies all over the world when they "discovered" them, not to mention abusing the indigenous people, stealing their land, killing them with diseases, and exploiting their natural resources. Their entire purpose was not only to change the societies they entered but to establish it as their own society, period.

Since when did attempting to "better their lives" become an unacceptable reason for immigration? Isn't that how U.S. society became a hodgepodge of people, most of them young men, from other countries? Are you ignorant of World History, have you forgotten it, or are you ignoring it because it refutes your "arguments?" I would also like to remind you that many immigrants, including the Irish, Italians, and Jews were considered a different "race" than Anglo-Saxon American residents, and suffered prejudice as a result.

You don't know that Ukrainian refugees would "generally" return to Ukraine after the war. You are speculating. Often, people who intend to return to their native countries find that it is easier to "settle in." (Yet retain their language and customs.) It is also documented that the farther the target country is from the native country, the greater is the tendency to stay in the new country.

Many refugees are at war with an aggressor. They are aggressors. Do they need to be external? There have been bitter conflicts, many of them of choice, fought between groups with sub-flavors of religion. I'm thinking of The Crusades, the Inquisition, and the Holocaust, all of them genocidal in some way. I am also thinking, of course, of the sub-flavors of Christianity which caused the Puritans and the Pilgrims to leave England and Holland to come to the "New World."

Your four "differences" are not so "different," are they? In the case of Ukrainians, I will still maintain that in the U.S., there is more sympathy for Europeans than for people from darker nations. Further, most people are moved to sympathy when they are bombarded by news of destruction for 24 hours a day.

I don't know where you're from, but if you are writing about the U.S. and you're not indigenous, then "go back where you came from."