text: As long as refugees leave the baggage and mind sets that turned their nations into hellholes things should be alright. Folks coming from Europe often were intolerant and backward looking and they were assimilated OK. I don't see any reason why Syrians , be they Sunni, Shia, Alawite, Druze or Christians can't be assimilated as well. That is something the US , as most English speaking nations , have done a pretty fair job of over the years..