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Wow, so because of the state of two cities, all minorities are unwanted?

Yet Texas is doing well.

It is exactly those type of comments which keep minorities from joining the conservative movement and the Republican Party.

Doesn’t matter. Race is not important. Why all the worry here?

you’re right — and when the highly skilled workers left Britain, it was crippled for nearly a decade and a half

It could be because he let the idiot box in the house. Unless tv viewing is monitored, I believe that it is a leading cause of delinquency.

Though there are articles that illegals are either packing up and going home or that people from Guatemala etc. are sending money to their relatives states-side. This isn’t good — it shows that our country is no longer the dream for most people as it was for over a century or two. Under the Obaminator, we’re rapidly becoming the land of the un-free. Check out his new attempts atgun bans...

Just keep allowing super breeder muslims in ... legally.

I’ve lived in Japan. Several Freepers still do. It was fine there. Really. Pleasant, even.

Unless you are Ainu (indigenous non-Nihon), Burakumin (untouchable classes), Ryukan/Okinawan, or Korean.
I'm all for nationalism and like Japan. But I don't ignore the unpleasent side of their culture.

The difficulty in Americanizing White Ethnics is not evidence for your assumption, but the opposite. And the fact is that socialisism was largely and immigrant construct in America.

By 2050, hispanics will be considered white. In the early 1900s, Italians weren’t considered white. As they integrated and intermarried into the majority, they “became” white. No one things of someone from Italian descent to be a minority any more. Mexicans and other hispanics will enjoy the same experience.

Obviously you don't know much about white ethnic politics from Maryland to Maine. Italian-Americans have not fully integrated in most of these areas. White Catholics ethnic groups act like other groups infected with grievance politics. They vote for leftist Democrats despite their individual values out of some old hatred/resentment/grievance of WASPs most of whom are now liberal.

In so far as they, like other white ethnics, have integrated it is because of the immigration act of 1924, which gave time for Americanization. It took a century for the Irish to assimilate, 60 years for the Italians, and I would argue that despite intermarriage rates of over 50%, Eastern European Jews from the great wave (1880-1923)have yet to fully assimilate. The only chance with Latinos is to end high levels of immigration, Americanize children, teach english and job skills to legal immigrants, and expell illegals and their ersatz anchors. The alternative is an angry united block of Democrats.

“Some of the comments here on Free Republic don’t help.”

Conservatives are not afraid to discuss race and voice their opinions. If people do not come right out and say what is on their mind how do these things ever get dealt with? I do disagree with you in the opinions expressed here give a more open discussion of the issue then a forum where people were concerned with political correctness. It is easier to just make jokes, which I am often guilty of, then to take the time that many here take to present their opinions and counterpoints.

Part of the reason why many Asians and Hispanics vote Democrat is that they believe Republicans and conservatives are racists. Some of the comments here on Free Republic don’t help.

I believe we should control our borders, make an effort to eject illegal aliens, and we should expect assimilation from our immigrants. But the race and ethnicity of those immigrants doesn’t matter to me. What matters to me is their willingness to become Americans and assimilate into the prevailing American culture. Despite the multicultural propaganda, there is plenty of evidence that many Hispanic immigrants do, in fact, assimilate. So the problem is less a matter of “Hispanic immigration” than one of (A) illegal immigration and (B) immigration by individuals with no interest in assimilating.

Oh...OK...the concept of Gaijin is gone, and it's an ethnically egalitarian society?

While there are disadvantages to being a gaijin, there are also advantages. As a non-Asian gaijin, I was largely exempt from having to comply with Japanese etiquette, which can be quite oppressive, if I chose not to. Similarly, my wife would never have to worry about a chikan molesting her in the subways because Japanese men wouldn't be certain that the gaijin woman wouldn't freak out and beat the crap out of them instead of silently putting up with it like many Japanese women do. Plenty of Japanese know English and I got by with very little Japanese. Crime is lower. People are politer. In many ways, I felt more culture shock returning from Japan than I felt going there after less than two years living there. There are opportunities and hurdles there just as there are opportunities and hurdles to immigrants to this country and there are certainly benefits to living there.

Funny, not what some of the Koreans I know say.

That's because they expect Koreans to behave like Japanese. Let's just say that life isn't always easy for common Japanese folk, either.

PS - how do you think the Japanese would feel about becoming an ethnic minority in the islands? Still be pleasant? Fine?

They probably won't like it but, given their birth rate, they might not have a choice about it, either. The truth is that despite what many Japanese like to believe, the Japanese are already quite ethnically mixed. You can see the faces of various Asian ethnicities in the faces of the Japanese and let's just say that one of the reasons why Koreans are such an issue is that the Japanese and Koreans are closer than either side often likes to acknowledge and many Koreans, having come from a country wedged between China and Japan, have a chip on their shoulder and are no more interested in fully assimilating into Japanese culture than Mexicans are interested in assimilating into ours. If the Koreans assimilated, you probably wouldn't be able to tell who was Korean and who was Japanese.

Absolutely. I think Americans have the right to control their borders and who enters and I also think we should expect immigrants to assimilate. In fact, I think immigrants hurt themselves as much as they hurt this country by refusing to assimilate.

The key consideration is will the values of western civilization as developed by white Europeans and Americans, go into minority status as well?

See Detroit and Los Angles

Most Asians, unfortunately, vote Dem, despite their embrace of suburban bourgeois values. :(

Actually, if you read books like “Studs Lonigan” (where the Irish toughs chase a Greek for being in a “white man’s neighborhood”) or, more anecdotally, the sentiment’s of the Irish gangster Mickey Spillane who complained in the 1930s of the “lack of white men on the docks” (due to the dominance of Italians as stevedores at the time), you can see that the Italians were indeed the sp-cs of their time.