Who Are They? (Are European nations losing their "identity"?)

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY ^ | Tuesday, July 13, 2004 | Editor

[Bulwark]

There is a big difference between a club team and a national team !

Look at the NL and AL all star rosters. It's just sports. If you want to argue this route, pick a better argument and go from there.

[Riverman94610]

Yes,the names are definitely leaning toward the Latin side in baseball but,then again,isn't baseball really a meritocracy?I doubt very much many black or white potential superstars are kept from the Majors by some sort of bizarre Hispanic affirmative action program!
Riverman

[Cronos]

It reminded me of Mexico's policy toward American immigrants into Texas in the 1820's.

very tongue in cheek!!!

[newfarm4000n]

Is there is any particular reason we should care that Eurabia is being destroyed ?

[skeeter]

The divisiveness that we blame for the liberal-conservative conflict is based as much on the massive influx of immigration into our cities as ideology.

I could never understand why the GOP so cheerfully goes along with every increase in the number of immigrants proposed, as I would guess that the percentage of foreign born that vote reliably Republican cannot exceed 45%.

That spells political extinction by anyone's calculation. As pathetic a representative of conservatism the GOP has become, at least its a voice.

[expat_panama]

very tongue in cheek!!!

If I'd wanted to talk tongue in cheek I would've said "gnaib buag hgiaa", but it's the irony that's knocking me over.  There's lots of differences.  The American immigrants in the 1820's

• complied with all Mexican immigration laws --even the part that required them to become Catholics

• put so much effort into assimilating that they took up the local language, customs, and they intermarried.

• they immigrated in response to a request by the Mexican government to settle an area where Mexicans didn't want to live

• they never renounced rule of law-- they fought the military dictator who'd rescinded  the Mexican constitution so they could restore constitution--  when that failed they settled for just restoring the rule of law.

The only similarities that early Mexico has with present day Germany and America are the unintended consequences of gov't programs run amuck.

[AngryJawa]

The French National soccer team at the recent Euro 2004 tournament was made up of immigrants (mostly African), with the exception of goalie Fabien Bartez.

Yeah, wow! Thank god our baseball teams aren't anything like that! Matsui, Contreras, El Duque, etc...! And that's just one team. Hrm....

I thought I'd never see the day when the US Men's National team would have more native players than the typical MLB baseball team.

[BureaucratusMaximus]

The United States is proceeding into a fractured nation similar to Europe. The divisiveness that we blame for the liberal-conservative conflict is based as much on the massive influx of immigration into our cities as ideology. With the large concentration of centralized power at the Federal level and the needs of the low paid workers and infastructure in the inner cities, the condlict boils down to socializing the tax structure to support the new arrivals. The Blue and the Grey that formed the basis for the Civil War has a chance to be replaced by the Blue and the Red in the next conflict if conditions don't start improving and unity being worked out.

Excellent synopsis.

[Mr. Mojo]

Does anyone here have a link to the actual article. .....in full? I can't seem to find it on the IBD website.