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We could say it is up to the alien to take steps to shed their alien status. They should work themselves to the bone, acculturate, fit in. There is a fitting Shakespeare quote for this, too, in The Merchant of Venice. Jessica, who is Jewish, also wants this. She desires equality from marrying a Christian: Jessica: I shall be saved by my husband; he hath made me a Christian. Launcelot: ... This making Christians will raise the price of hogs (Act III, Scene V) Which is to say that the assimilation of the social climber is also forcefully rejected. It is unwanted, you are unwanted: vanish, forever if possible. Here, Shakespeare is genius—as always. Gratiano O, be thou damn d, inexecrable dog! And for thy life let justice be accused. (Act IV, Scene I) Which is to say that it is the fault of bad laws that the alien cannot be removed from the ranks of humanity with a single legal procedure. They solve this (also) later. Not only SS Obergruppenführer Heydrich took part in the Wannsee Conference in 1942, but many office workers, legal experts, and civil servants. The goal: to find the points in the law that would allow the “Endlésung” to be executed. It was for this purpose that many minor bureaucrats gathered in the villa in Wannsee (Heydrich and Eichmann were practically the only high-ranking Nazis there). Each and every one of them contributed: mostly peaceful, all absolutely normal people. None would have hurt anyone, not even a fly. They had families, children, and dogs. By themselves they were absolutely uninteresting. They would had lived their little lives uneventfully without anyone noticing that they had been on Earth for a while. They were little people who did not think, faceless, dissolved in the mass. Hanna
