If a nation does repent and God builds them up, then it is for him alone to decide how the finished vessel will fit into his plan... God alone determines the special features / privileges /
responsibilities of a particular nation (Forster & Marston, God's Strategy, 74).
And as for whether our various faiths are a help or a hindrance to the
success of this particular nation, I see no reason why that question should be the test of our convictions.
Thirdly, the very idea of integration in the directive is understood through the prism of social facts and prohibition of discrimination on the basis of nationality — not through the prism of cultural
exceptionalism of a particular nation (see, e.g. Dora Kostakopoulou's Why Naturalisation?
The idea that these might subordinate their financial interests to
that of a particular nation hardly comes into play.